Skillset's Film Skills Council comprises senior film industry figures, from all areas of the film value chain, who lead and advise us on our work in film. The Film Skills Council meets quarterly. The members of the Film Skills Council are:

Chair: Iain Smith - Applecross Productions Ltd

Deputy Chair: Tim Richards - CEO and Founder, VUE

Mark Batey - CEO, Film Distributors' Association

Roy Button - Senior VP, Production and Managing Director, Warner Brothers Europe Production

Tim Cagney - Head of UK Partnerships, UK Film Council

Dinah Caine - CEO, Skillset

Phil Clapp - CEO, Cinema Exhibitors Association

Joe Dunton - MD, Joe Dunton and Company Ltd

Matthew Justice - MD, Big Talk Productions

Ralph Kamp - Chair and CEO, Odyssey Entertainment, Chair of Film Export UK

Emily Stillman - CEO, Production Guild

John McVay - CEO, Pact

Steve Norris - MD - Film, Framestore CFC

Rebecca O'Brien - Producer, Sixteen Films

Kate O'Connor - Deputy CEO/Executive Director, Skillset

Neil Peplow - Director of Film, Skillset

Julia Short - Company Director, Verve Pictures Ltd

Andrew M. Smith - Group Director: Corporate Affairs, Pinewood Studios Group

Karen Smythe - Managing Director, La Belle Allee Productions Ltd

Martin Spence - Assistant General Secretary, BECTU

Mike Stevens - Group and UK Human Resources Director, Odeon UK

John Woodward - CEO, UK Film Council

Michelle Wright - Head of Production, Working Title Films