Primary Job Title Founder and Managing Consultant Primary Organization 
Fairmile West
Location Faversham, Kent, United Kingdom Regions Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) Gender Male
Website fairmilewest.com LinkedIn View on LinkedIn X (Twitter) View on X
Ian Nock is the Founder and Principal Consultant of Fairmile West Consulting and has over 25 years of experience in high technology research, development, and operations. Since entering the TV industry in the late 1990s, he has worked in the setup and launch of many Satellite, Cable, IPTV, and OTT video platforms across Europe in diverse roles that
encompass technology and operations from production to consumption. Ian moved into consulting in 2004, working with some of the most innovative vendor and operator companies in the industry. He founded Fairmile West Consulting (www.fairmilewest.com) in 2012 as a multi-national, high expertise Digital TV and Media consulting and professional services company, working with large/small operators and technology vendors on product/technology strategy, architecture, and delivery. Taking an early interest in the development of Ultra HD, Fairmile West has been a member of the Ultra HD Forum since 2015 and has been an active participant in their efforts around Interoperability, taking a leading part in those efforts with member companies and organizations. Ian graduated with a First Class Bachelors Degree in Engineering Technology in 1992 from Leicester Polytechnic (now De Montfort University), undertaking research into medical automation, flexible packaging dynamics, and post-graduate research into artificial intelligence-based control systems with a number of published papers in those areas. He quickly jumped out of academia into the nascent Internet and Networking industry before moving into TV. He is a member of the IET, IEEE, RTS, and Fellow of the SCTE: The Society for Broadband Professionals.
