Helping aspiring filmmakers create videos for big brands and social causes
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Jeffrey Merrihue Executive Chairman & Co-Founder

Jeffrey began his international marketing career with RJR Nabisco in Spain in 1986. Over the course of eight years, he held marketing management positions in Canada, Ecuador, Venezuela, and Italy.

Jeffrey moved to Kellogg in 1994, where he served as Marketing director Colombia, Commercial Director Mexico / Latin America and finally, Director of European Marketing in Manchester England.

In 1998, Jeffrey joined Initiative Media as CEO and European Regional Director and founded Initiative Consulting.

In 2001 Jeffrey joined Accenture as a partner where he founded Accenture Marketing Sciences and ran the group as CEO building a group focused on digital, retail, marketing and media measurement and optimization services for the world's most important advertisers.

In September 2009, Jeffrey left Accenture to focus full time on Mofilm as Chairman.

Andy Baker

Andy Baker CEO & Co-Founder

Andy began MOFILM with Ralph & Jeffrey after delivering the pioneering Sundance Global Short Film Festival for Mobile in collaboration with the GSM Association, which first saw world-famous filmmakers produce made-for-mobile films.  Andy was previously CEO at grounding breaking digital media company DX3, an early pioneer of downloadable music.  He has also managed international licensed music and content for service providers globally, with a particular interest in mobile and the African market. Andy has held senior management positions at Mediawave, WebTV, Energis and Cable and Wireless.  Andy served in the Royal Signals within the British Army and is a graduate from Leeds Metropolitan University in Communications.

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Ralph Cochrane COO & Co-Founder

Ralph is MOFILM's evangelist and is responsible for building the MOFILM community. He is an award winning entrepreneur with a passion for design and marketing innovative new technologies. A Chartered Engineer, Ralph's early career was with the world-famous BT Laboratories focused on Internet research. He went on to hold several senior executive roles at BT in mobile, consulting and next generation networks. Ralph also served as President & CEO of media content delivery network provider Venation.

Separately, Ralph founded multi-touch surface company www.touch-it.com and serves as Chairman of innovation marketing agency, Clarity International. He co-founded the Global Summit networking event in the UK, which showcases the best innovation in media, telecommunications and IT. More recently Ralph also created and led the 1GOAL Mobile charity campaign with the GSMA.

Ken Smialek

Ken Smialek Board Member

Ken is a key business advisor and Board Director of Mofilm.  Ken is a Director of a leading European Private Equity firm focused on the Consumer Sector, based in London.

Jessica Young

Jessica YoungAccount Director

Jessica is MOFILM's Account Director, based in New York City where she leads global client services for all brands and partners, in addition to managing operations for our US-based events. Jess's background is in consulting and marketing optimization (traditional and digital channels); prior to MOFILM, she was a manager with Accenture where she helped launch and develop their newly acquired digital practice, to form Accenture Interactive. Jessica began her career in telecommunications and she holds an MBA from Thunderbird, School of Global Management.

Chris Noden

Chris Noden Chief Technical Officer

With over 10 years senior-management experience in new media, global mobile content delivery, digital music and high performance infrastructures Chris heads up the technical division at MOFILM.  As one of the original senior management team at Monstermob then moving on to become CTO at DX3 Chris brings a wealth of experience and knowledge about the world of digital entertainment, content and the modern internet powered consumer.