Specialising in live studio graphics and custom design software and technology for the entertainment industry...

Simon Lucas

Managing Director

 Simon is Cat and Mouse’s Managing Director, liaising directly with clients as well as assisting with the design of new systems.

He has more than 10 years experience in the design of game show control systems. He has operated and managed systems for smash hit shows including the original UK and USA prime time versions of ‘Who Wants To Be A Millionaire’, as well as overseeing productions in a further fourteen countries. He has also worked on ‘Winning Lines’ (UK and USA), ‘Britain’s Brainiest’ (UK and overseas), ‘The People Versus’ and many other game shows worldwide. 

Carl Blundell

Creative Director

In the role of Creative Director, Carl is the chief architect of Cat and Mouse's proprietary hardware and software systems. Carl pioneered the use of computers in television in 1984 and has been developing the core philosophies and technical systems for TV show control ever since. 

Simon Latus

Project Director

Simon is the newest member of the Cat and Mouse team having run his own successful company SJL Media Solutions which Cat and Mouse purchased in December 2011.

David Burton

Accountant / Company Secretary

Hamish Barjonas

Senior Show Designer

In the 7 years since making the switch from Radio, Hamish has developed computer systems for countless TV formats. He has been behind gameshows such as Only Connect (BBC Four) and Question of Genius (BBC Two), along with other more unusual systems:

• Cat Call Live, which harnesses Skype for broadcast TV.

• Several Elections for BBC Wales and BBC NI.

• Full logging and graphics systems for sports including Snooker and Darts.

• A playing card reading system.

• A karaoke system which can score the singer.

• Text message, picture message and phone systems integration.

Craig Hann

Show Designer

Solmar Cataldi

Project Manager

Mark Wass

Technical Project Manager

Mark became a full time member of staff for Cat and Mouse late in 2010. After starting out as a wireman building new theatres and TV studios, he started working freelance for several companies working in live sound & video systems for large corporate & arena shows around the world. As well as liaising with clients about new shows, Mark spends a lot of his time building the systems that Cat and Mouse supply as well as installation and operation in studio.

Joe Styles

Real-time Graphics Programmer

Joe started with Cat and Mouse in January 2007. Coming from a creative background using After Effects, he launched straight into learning our new graphics system Ventuz and helped integrate it into our working processes. He has since gone on to create the real time graphics system for various shows, whilst also being a member of the team on site for the setup and support of our shows.

Nicholas Tong

Poker Project Manager

Nick joined Cat and Mouse in early 2010, coming from the education sector where he was a primary school IT manager. In addition to his ‘hands-on’ teaching work, he created several CD-ROM titles for the TIMES Education range including Welcome To Numberton and Welcome To Letterby, two immersive collections of game-based activities designed to develop young children’s numeracy and literacy.

He is based at Cat and Mouse’s Cardiff offices, but spends much of his time jetting off to exotic and glamorous locations like South America and The Bahamas where he sits in a windowless box logging poker games.

During lulls in the annual poker calendar he has put his art and design training to use by creating sets of on-screen graphics for new poker tournaments like the Anglo-French Cash Game Battle, and also for the 2010 European Darts Championship held in Dinslaken, Germany.

Using Cat and Mouse’s industry-leading proprietory data-logging and presentation technologies, Nick provides a ‘soup to nuts’ service for televised poker tournaments, heading up the logging teams that record the action at live events, processing the data and player photos, and generating the game graphics that appear on screen when the finished programmes are aired.

Jonathan Paxton

System Operator