Board Members
David Frodsham - Chairman
David is a seasoned entrepreneur and CEO with over 20 years’ experience of building and managing highly successful IT companies across a range of business sectors. David served as COO of Phoenix Technologies - a company that produces the BIOS software present in most of the PCs made worldwide.
Gordon Ashworth
Gordon Ashworth was previously Finance Director and Chief Executive Officer of Asite plc, a listed technology company. Prior to this, Gordon gained experience as Finance Director in the IT contracting, hospitality, consulting, and banking sectors. Gordon qualified as an accountant in 1989. He has previously held directorships at K2 Hyman Capital Solutions Limited, K2 Partnering Solutions Ltd, LOC 10 Limited and Encoreforum Limited.
Management Team
Jon Folland - Managing Director
Before founding Nativ, Jon was a Head of Technology at a number of start-ups, managing the development of large-scale technical solutions for MTV and BBC. Prior to this, Jon was a Technical Team Leader at Razorfish, UK where he managed and mentored teams of developers in the delivery of technical solutions for high profile clients such as British Aerospace, NMEC, Natwest and Britannia.
Nick Ryan - Technical Director
Previously Nick worked at a start-up where he led interactive TV and broadband development. Prior to this, he worked at Razorfish, UK. He has a strong technical background, having developed embedded solutions in the mobile, mining and medical industries. He has published papers on digital signal processing.
Nick is a member of the official ISO-MPEG standards working group, working on behalf of the BSI.
James Oughton - Operations Director
