Pat Joseph

Managing Director Pat Joseph founded Oscar winning post production facility The Mill 10 years ago with present chairman James Morris and chief executive Robin Shenfield.

Robin Shenfield and Pat Joseph were part of the original group that founded The Mill in 1990. The pair met in 1986 whilst working at Rushes and have worked closely over the past twelve years in the success of The Mill.

The Mill is one of the largest, most respected and broad ranging providers of digital content in the world. Founded in 1990 as a technology-based creative service, The Mill produces content for advertising across all existing, new media and broadband platforms.

Mill Film was launched in 1997 to concentrate on visual effects for film and four years later won a Visual Effects Oscar for work on Ridley Scott's Roman epic 'Gladiator'.

With bases within Soho, London, Shepperton Studios, and Los Angeles the companies combine superior digital effects talent and technical strength with vast experience in visual effects supervision.

Mill's Shepperton base houses Mill Motion Control, Mill Models and part of the Mill Film visual effects team. Soho is the home of The Mill, Mill Film and the newly launched Mill/lab, the group's interactive division. Over the last two years, The Mill has also been pioneering the delivery of digital media via the internet with emill and www.beam.tv.

In February 2001 original Mill founders Robin Shenfield, Pat Joseph and James Morris bought the company from outside investors for a sum of £25million.