The story
Not a CV. The order things actually happened in, and what each part taught him.
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Born Mitchell Innes in Basildon on 27 April 2001 and raised in Wickford, Essex — son of Wayne and Sharon Innes, and younger brother to Karl and Bradley Innes. He later took the surname Mottram in honour of his grandfather. School was Bromfords in Wickford; the obsession was always how things worked — signal, cable, network, picture.
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It started with tools, not titles. Studying broadcast engineering and network engineering, then hired young by ITN to train — while learning the trade hands-on: wiring, cabling, CCTV, networking and installation in lofts, risers and plant rooms, where the only thing that matters is whether it works when someone switches it on.
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Early entrepreneurship, learned the way most useful things are: by doing it, getting it wrong, and doing it better the next week. Quoting, delivering, invoicing, repeating.
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A progression into professional broadcasting and technology infrastructure — a world where deadlines are transmission times and there is no version of late that is acceptable.
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Approximately four years within ITN and broadcast environments, working at the technical heart of live news output.
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Experience across projects and environments associated with ITV News, ITN, Channel 4, Good Morning Britain, BBC Studioworks, Formula 1, Royal Opera House and Deluxe Media.
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Mottram Installation Group and Mottram Broadcast — turning a skill set into a company, a team and a body of work that exists in the physical world, reaching £6 million in revenue within its first three years.
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Business development, sport, media, live entertainment and content — the same instincts, pointed at a bigger audience.
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