Team
Every member of our multi-award-winning team embraces our company ethos of producing ground-breaking, creative content in a positive and supportive environment. Building and nurturing relationships, be it with contributors, colleagues, broadcasters, or collaborators, is at the heart of all we do. As is embracing our passion for diversity, equity, and inclusion, on and offscreen, and as a social mission.
Sallyann Keizer
Managing Director, Executive Producer
BAFTA and Emmy award-winning Sallyann is passionate about people – connecting with them, telling their stories, and ensuring everyone’s voice is heard, represented and respected. She loves working with children, and believes nurturing and inspiring our younger generation is at the root of social progress. Her dedication to their wellbeing and her interest in mental health research drives her current work, and she believes in the power of the media to spread love and create positive change in the world.
A Cambridge graduate and trained journalist, Sallyann kicked off her TV career at ITN and the BBC Features department, before moving on to a number of channels including CBBC and Channel 5, as a presenter, reporter, producer and director.
Her diverse career as an executive producer has also taken her to Disney and Discovery Networks, commissioning and working on content for EMEA, and she has won a BAFTA and International Emmy as well as being nominated for an RTS Educational Award, a RIMA and a Prix Jeunesse. She consults for international organisations and speaks regularly on panels and at events around the world.
Sallyann sits on the MIP Markets’ Diversity Advisory Board and enjoys mentoring our younger generation, empowering them to fly. Her three favourite things are pizza, pasta (she believes she’s secretly Italian!) and the love of her life, a 40 kilo black Labrador named Archie Archibald.
Ruth Mills
Series Producer
Since the age of 8 Ruth has wanted to make Children’s TV and for the last 18 years she’s pretty much done just that, with a smattering of ‘grown-up’ shows thrown in for good measure. She has worked for major broadcasters including BBC, ITV, Channel 4, E4, Five and Syfy (US). Credits include “Horrible Histories: Gory Games”, “Blue Peter”, “Vic Reeves’ Ministry of Curious Stuff”, and “Children in Need”, not forgetting a couple of stints producing her favourite canine Hacker T Dog on CBBC.
Ruth is at her happiest when making Children’s content and in 2017, she won a BAFTA for Sixth Sense series ‘Our Family’. In 2013 she developed and Series Produced CBBC’s first ‘dual screen’ offering – a game show and app called ‘Ludus’. Set in outer-space, it featured a spaceship captained by a real life monkey. Ruth won a BAFTA Cymru award, a Broadcast Digital award and was nominated for a Children’s BAFTA for the project. More importantly, she’s still close friends with the monkey.
Stephanie Gauld
Digital Consultant
Our digital genius Steph joined us in 2018 to help us with all things digital! She formerly headed up Digital Strategy and Products for the Emmy award-winning children’s brand Bing, as well as working at Disney setting up the EMEA virtual worlds team and launching the leading virtual world, Club Penguin, in Europe. To add to her many list of achievements, Steph also set up CBeebies Online and Interactive TV at the BBC, building up the content strategy, gaining several BAFTA nominations and leading this team for six years.
Steph’s amazing creativity and knowledge of interactive content is launching Sixth Sense right to the forefront of the digital world. Whilst mere mortals are sleeping, Steph is constantly having 3 am moments of genius, surprising the team with her nuggets of brilliance once the sun has risen!
Roz Howe
Production Executive
Roz joined the industry in 1987 working on live current affairs and political programming for Channel 4. Since then she’s worked with a variety of major broadcasters, across a diversity of genres, including historical drama and documentary; foreign affairs and investigative journalism; science, music and the arts.
In 2011, the ‘lovely Roz’ (as Sally refers to her) joined the Sixth Sense team and we’ve never looked back. Amongst other things, Roz helps us to keep on-budget and on-time, whilst never sacrificing the quality of our content. Her career highlight so far was seeing the TARDIS at MediaCityUK (true or false?).