Cat Lewis, Executive Producer & Managing Director

Cat has worked as an Executive Producer for the last nine years making factual programmes for the BBC, ITV, C4, Five, Sky One, Living, TLC (The Learning Channel, Discovery in USA) the C&I Network, the Bio Channel and the History Channel.  She has won Royal Television Society awards both as an Executive Producer and as a Producer.  Cat set up Nine Lives in September 2007 and is the company’s owner, Managing Director and Joint Creative Director.  She has since won commissions for the company to make over 40 programmes for five different broadcasters in the UK and America.  Nine Lives made the highest ever rated single documentary for BBC Three, the channel aimed at 16 to 35-year-olds, and one of the highest ever rating documentaries shown on the BIO channel.  As Managing Director, Cat has increased the company’s turnover more than five times from Year One to Four and currently employs 15 programme makers.  Before becoming an Executive Producer, Cat enjoyed a successful career as an award winning producer/director, series producer and on screen news reporter for the BBC and Granada TV.  Cat is the founder and chair of the North’s Indie Club, is on the UK’s PACT Council as representative of independents in the Regions, is on the RTS Committee in the North West and on the Advisory Board of Salford University’s International Media School. Cat is Nine Lives’ majority shareholder.

Kerry Brierley, Head of Development

As a producer/director Kerry makes excellent and very highly rating documentaries including BBC three’s Small Teen Big World, which has achieved the channel’s highest ever ratings. She is also making My School Prom for the BBC and has previously made 34 Stone Teenager, Under 18 & Under the Knife and Lucy: Teen Transsexual. Kerry has made a number of highly successful Extraordinary People documentaries for Five including, The World’s Oldest Conjoined Twins, Britain’s Tiniest Toddlers, The World’s Strongest Toddler, The Man with Half a Body, The Tiniest Girl in the World, The Woman with Giant Legs and The Tiniest Boy in Britain, many of which have been their highest rating programmes. Kerry made The Dancer with Tiny Legs for TLC, part of Discovery in America , and is currently making The World’s Oldest Conjoined Twins Move Home for them. Kerry is a shareholder and company director of Nine Lives. She makes films exclusively for Nine Lives.

Dave Stanford, Executive Producer

Dave is a multi award winning executive producer with a well established track record of launching and delivering high quality shows. In the last couple of years Dave has been the Executive Producer of the BBC’s Property Watch and Fern Britton Meets, including the headline grabbing interview with Tony Blair in December 2009 . Until 2007 Dave ran the BBC’s network current affairs unit in the north, launching a number of peak time series for the BBC including Liquid Assets; Real Story with Fiona Bruce; Hard Cash; 4 x 4; The Crime Squad, many successful mini-series and one off documentaries. Under his leadership the unit won seven Royal Television Society Awards. Dave is a shareholder and company director of Nine Lives.