We are Nexilis, a media technology consultancy based in the UK.
We have formed partnerships with a number of carefully selected cloud-first SaaS product companies, whose innovative tools are enabling next-generation media production, collaboration and storytelling.
We are the UK & Ireland partner and sales agent for the following:
Fonn Group AS, whose companies include Mimir, Dina, everviz and Kunnusta.
Cutting Room AS, whose products include CuttingRoom Editor and CuttingRoom Reporter App.
We bring over 25 years of technology and editorial experience, to help companies integrate and adopt best-in-breed tools with a modern efficient workflow.
We enable producers, editors, and journalists to focus on creative storytelling, freeing them from the legacy systems and overly complex processes that are slowing them down.
Mark Harris
[ Company Founder & Media Technology Consultant ]
Mark started his career in broadcast back in 1997, working for AVS Graphics, supporting and selling character generators.
In 2001 Mark joined the projects team at Omnibus Systems, where he was the lead Project Engineer moving The Associated Press’ Television News division from Tape to Video Server, this was a complex project, being a monumental change in operations and workflow for AP staff, and a baptism of fire for Mark, with it being his first major project.
In 2003 Mark joined AP where he led a team of Support and Project Engineers, expanding and evolving the server-based production and non-linear editing systems in AP’s offices and bureaux around the world.
In early 2020 Mark oversaw another major shift in editorial workflow, which was of course the global mass migration to home working and remote production, forced by the Covid 19 pandemic.
In a few short weeks, Mark and his colleagues quickly transitioned editorial operations away from using on-premise workstations and hardware, to working remotely from home via cloud infrastructure.
In March 2021, Mark formed Nexilis Media Ltd, providing consultancy, project deployment services, and partnering with some exciting and innovative technology companies, whose cloud-native SaaS products and tools are enabling the next-generation of media production and story-telling.
Beth Colson
[ Editorial Consultant ]
Beth started her career in broadcast back in 1999, working on the Big Breakfast News at ITN, before going on to become a Production Journalist on the ITN News Channel and a Producer on Channel 4 News.
In 2003, Beth moved to BBC World as a Broadcast Journalist – just in time to work on the Iraq war.
In 2005, Beth went to Sky News to be part of the launch team for a brand-new iteration of Five News. As a Producer and Chief Sub Video, she loved the challenges of working with brand new production systems and new teams, ensuring all the latest video successfully went on-air.
In 2006 Beth moved to The Associated Press, where in 2010 she became Head of News Production.
While working closely with technical colleagues, she led a 20-strong production team through several iterations of digital transformation, including changes of production systems, workflows, and restructuring, whilst improving collaboration between global teams, and ensuring editorial output appeared seamless to clients.
Managing change and collaborating with editorial and technical colleagues has always been a highlight for Beth, in particular training and rolling out new tools to improve and fine tune working practices.
During her time at AP, she was part of a Pulitzer Prize-winning team whose work won an award for Public Service journalism for a story that resulted in around 2,000 fishing slaves being freed from captivity in Southeast Asia.
