Patrick Holzen
Managing Director, Pepper Post Production

Chair - Training Committee

Patrick is Managing Director of Pepper Post Production  looking after all the commercial, financial, marketing and strategy of the company.

Patrick qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1991 with Deloitte and Touche in South Africa.

In 1996, after 5 years commercial experience, Patrick left South Africa and joined Carlton Communications PLC in London in the role of Head of Finance for film and broadcast post production subsidiary TVI. When TVI was successfully sold to US post group: Ascent Media, he remained within the Carlton Group as Finance Manager for distribution subsidiary - Carlton (now Granada) International. 

Patrick was tempted back to the wonderful world of Post Production to fill the role of Managing Director of Pepper.  Shortly afterwards, in tandem with fellow director and Principle Editor: Shane Warden, he bought the company in a Management Buy Out. 

Patrick has been instrumental in making Pepper a leading brand in the industry, he and Shane have seen Pepper rocket from Number 32 UK post facility in 2001's Televisual Survey to Number 8 in 2006 with 2 nominations for Best Post Production Company at the Broadcast Awards on top of that.