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CELEBRATING 20 YEARS GREEN HIPPO’S 20TH BIRTHDAY // 24TH OCTOBER 2020

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CELEBRATING OUR LEGACY HIPPOS

TWENTY YEARS FIFTEEN YEARS TECHNICAL DIRECTOR / CO FOUNDER, GREEN HIPPO SPECIAL PROJECTS DIRECTOR, GREEN HIPPO SEAN WESTGATE NIGEL SADLER

What Media Server/product was being sold at the �me of you star�ng at What Media Server/product was being sold at the �me of you star�ng at Green Hippo? Green Hippo?

[Sean Westgate] The first products we made were the IGS (Interac�ve [Nigel Sadler] The Hippo�zer Lite and Hippo�zer Pro Graphics Servers) version 1 -4. A�er that the Hippo�zer Brand was born. And yes – there was a v1. It didn’t last very long though before version 2 Favourite event that Green Hippo has worked on? superseded it and became a commercial success. [Nigel Sadler] The Oscars... because it’s the Oscars (obviously!), it has an Favourite event that Green Hippo has worked on? incredible feeling when you are there because you feel so privileged to be part of it. I don’t normally get star struck – but you can’t help it at the [Sean Westgate] That would have been the Beatles show “Love” in Las Vegas Oscars. premiering in 2006. It was out first big project with racks full of servers driving 32 projectors. There was a so�edge blended 360 degree screen Everything has to be 100% perfect – no mistakes can happen and the going all the way around the circular stage and many other screens number of viewers makes it a really scary task every �me. dropping in and out. Favourite trip or experience with Green Hippo Favourite trip or experience with Green Hippo [Nigel Sadler] In the very early days of Green Hippo, I was involved in a large [Sean Westgate] Was probably on the same job. Due to the complicated fes�val at Alexandra Palace where the video screens were driven by nature of the show there was li�le �me during the day to do any server Hippo�zer. At around 1:00am in the morning the screen on the main stage updates and maintenance, so I flew out from the UK and stayed in Vegas for went black – we tried to discover what had gone wrong, it turned out that a week but completely staying in UK �me as I only worked night shi�s. there was a join between two cables that sent the video signal from the Because most casinos in Vegas have no windows, you can’t really tell what front of house to the back screen, but the join had broken and it was flown �me it is anyway, so I had a very comfortable �me there and no jetlag in the roof of Alexandra palace so was impossible to fix. coming back! We quickly grabbed the Hippo and a screen and dragged it over to the How many countries have you visited with Green Hippo? Videoprocessor that was under a piece of staging that the DJ was standing on on the stage – I set up the system there and operated the rest of the [Sean Westgate] Not too many, back and forth to the US quite a bit and all show on my back, upside down underneath the DJ, with only 1 foot high of over Europe, so France, Germany, Switzerland, Netherlands, Sweden, space and no view of the main screen – I had one of my colleagues shou�ng Finland and probably some more… at me to tell me what was appearing on the screen at any one moment, I was under there for about 2 more hours!

How many countries have you visited with Green Hippo?

[Nigel Sadler] 50+ Really can’t count – I have been to most countries. What Media Server/product was being sold at the �me of you star�ng at What Media Server/product was being sold at the �me of you star�ng at Green Hippo? Green Hippo?

How many countries have you visited with Green Hippo?

[Nigel Sadler] 50+ Really can’t count – I have been to most countries.

CELEBRATING OUR LEGACY HIPPOS

EIGHT YEARS FOURTEEN YEARS TRAINING MANAGER, GREEN HIPPO SENIOR SALES MANAGER, GREEN HIPPO SUZY STENNING TOM ETRA

What Media Server/product was being sold at the �me of you star�ng at What Media Server/product was being sold at the �me of you star�ng at Green Hippo? Green Hippo? [Tom Etra] When I started I was suppor�ng V2 Express, Stage and HD. 6 [Suzy Stenning] GrassHopper was my favourite product when I started but Months later we released V3 and the real fun began. we also sold cri�ers and V3 HD’s in the new chassis. Favourite event that Green Hippo has worked on? Favourite event that Green Hippo has worked on? [Tom Etra] Eurovision 2007. Having worked at Green Hippo for li�le under a [Suzy Stenning] I went to visit the Blue Man Group in Germany because year. V3’s first ou�ng was looking like it would be the biggest project we had there was some issues with �mecode, we fixed the issues very quickly, but it done to date. We were using beta version of V3 and s�ll coming across was very interes�ng to see how it works. I got to spend a few days with bugs. The infamous disappearing media map was a good one. James Heron them and fully understand how they perform. It was great to be a part of (Co-founder) called me late Friday evening and told me I need to be in their family for a short period of �me. Helsinki early Monday morning to support Eurovision. 1 year out of Uni and I was media server support for Eurovision. I took an early flight Monday Favourite trip or experience with Green Hippo morning and landed in Helsinki where I had a call from an annoyed Sean Westgate asking me why I was late we had lot of work to do. I s�ll have a [Suzy Stenning] It was my birthday and I was in Germany with Zep Mouris mental image of myself si�ng in the airport before passport control, on a (Hippo�zer Product Manager), we met up with a client and he showed us plas�c chair looking at the plane I have just got of trying to explain to Sean around Miniature Wonderland, (backstage tour) it was incredible. We then where I was. had a design mee�ng with him on how he could go further with Hippo�zer. It was then so late and most of the places for food were shut so we spent Ola Melzig was the produc�on manager. He is a great character and when ages wandering round looking for a birthday dinner, eventually a�er many he no�ced I was only 20 on my passport I was the subject of friendly banter a�empts we found a restaurant that was open. for the two weeks I was there. The meal tokens were handed out for the next 2 weeks, which I lost within 10 minutes. There is a story including a hot How many countries have you visited with Green Hippo? tub and seal fat but it’s not true. The next two weeks were a real journey.

[Suzy Stenning] A lot, mostly Europe but I have also visited South Africa Favourite trip or experience with Green Hippo which was loads of fun. I had the opportunity to go on a Safari during my trip and saw everything from rhinos to lions. The baby elephants were the [Tom Etra] Working support we won the contract for Wintuk at Maddison best. Square Gardens. Rachael Cady was appointed media server programmer. Using The V3 �meline Rachael had many 1000’s of tracks to programme on the limited �meline. I spent around a month fault ﬁnding a problem. Trying to reproduce Rachael’s problem. Only to ﬁnd out she wasn’t running components on a ZooKeeper. Internally we did not know this could be done and was a revela�on when we understood what she was doing.

How many countries have you visited with Green Hippo?

[Tom Etra] I think about 40 – 50 countries. A few highlights include; Mexico, South Africa, Lebanon, Egypt, Russia, Latvia, Dubai, Hong Kong, and Japan. What Media Server/product was being sold at the �me of you star�ng at What Media Server/product was being sold at the �me of you star�ng at Green Hippo? Green Hippo? [Tom Etra] When I started I was suppor�ng V2 Express, Stage and HD. 6 [Suzy Stenning] GrassHopper was my favourite product when I started but Months later we released V3 and the real fun began. we also sold cri�ers and V3 HD’s in the new chassis. Favourite event that Green Hippo has worked on? Favourite event that Green Hippo has worked on? [Tom Etra] Eurovision 2007. Having worked at Green Hippo for li�le under a [Suzy Stenning] I went to visit the Blue Man Group in Germany because year. V3’s first ou�ng was looking like it would be the biggest project we had there was some issues with �mecode, we fixed the issues very quickly, but it done to date. We were using beta version of V3 and s�ll coming across was very interes�ng to see how it works. I got to spend a few days with bugs. The infamous disappearing media map was a good one. James Heron them and fully understand how they perform. It was great to be a part of (Co-founder) called me late Friday evening and told me I need to be in their family for a short period of �me. Helsinki early Monday morning to support Eurovision. 1 year out of Uni and I was media server support for Eurovision. I took an early flight Monday Favourite trip or experience with Green Hippo morning and landed in Helsinki where I had a call from an annoyed Sean Westgate asking me why I was late we had lot of work to do. I s�ll have a [Suzy Stenning] It was my birthday and I was in Germany with Zep Mouris mental image of myself si�ng in the airport before passport control, on a (Hippo�zer Product Manager), we met up with a client and he showed us plas�c chair looking at the plane I have just got of trying to explain to Sean around Miniature Wonderland, (backstage tour) it was incredible. We then where I was. had a design mee�ng with him on how he could go further with Hippo�zer. It was then so late and most of the places for food were shut so we spent Ola Melzig was the produc�on manager. He is a great character and when ages wandering round looking for a birthday dinner, eventually a�er many he no�ced I was only 20 on my passport I was the subject of friendly banter a�empts we found a restaurant that was open. for the two weeks I was there. The meal tokens were handed out for the next 2 weeks, which I lost within 10 minutes. There is a story including a hot How many countries have you visited with Green Hippo? tub and seal fat but it’s not true. The next two weeks were a real journey.

How many countries have you visited with Green Hippo?

[Tom Etra] I think about 40 – 50 countries. A few highlights include; Mexico, South Africa, Lebanon, Egypt, Russia, Latvia, Dubai, Hong Kong, and Japan.

CELEBRATING OUR LEGACY HIPPOS

TWELVE YEARS EIGHT YEARS CUSTOMER SERVICE MANAGER, GREEN HIPPO OPERATIONS & PRODUCT DIRECTOR, GREEN HIPPO MILLICENT RIOUX RYAN BROWN

What Media Server/product was being sold at the �me of you star�ng at What Media Server/product was being sold at the �me of you star�ng at Green Hippo? Green Hippo?

[Millicent Rioux] Hippo�zer V2 ––Stage , HD and Express. [Ryan Brown] It was all Hippo�zer V3. We had HDs, GrassHoppers and Cri�ers. The big feature focus was Uber-Pan which enabled us to sync lots of Favourite event that Green Hippo has worked on? systems into a single canvas – it was ground-breaking at the �me.

[Millicent Rioux] PLASA 2014. We put on a training day in the office for our Favourite event that Green Hippo has worked on? Distributors (23+) at the �me, launching the V4 range at the same �me to make a successful tradeshow. [Ryan Brown] Probably my favourite gig to work on was a German Pop-Idol show that was set in an ac�ve salt mine. Favourite trip or experience with Green Hippo The show was in a huge cavern 500m underground. Just ge�ng to the [Millicent Rioux] Devcon/Hotcon 2013 at Knowle Manor in Somerset. cavern took a 10 minute elevator ride and then a 5km drive through the mine. We had to evacuate to the surface at every lunch break because During our stay there, we had a whole day outdoor ac�vity, it was a explosions further in the mine rendered the air toxic in our room. (A worker Treasure hunt, we were all given a packed lunch. We also the chance to visit was assigned to each group of us, the worker wore a special device that the surroundings and the Minehead Heritage steam railway terminus café. would tell him if the air was toxic. If that alarm went off our instruc�on was to try to keep up with him as he ran). In our off-�me we got to drive around the mine with the locals who showed us a 5m wide salt crystal s�ll where they had found it: nearly a kilometre underground.

Favourite trip or experience with Green Hippo

[Ryan Brown] Probably the whole company playing laser tag on Osea island on a company get-away. We split into two teams and played capture the ﬂag laser tag. Where our normally prim and proper non-execu�ve director did a very good job as drill sergeant devising all sorts of manoeuvres to outsmart our opponents.

How many countries have you visited with Green Hippo?

[Ryan Brown] More than I can count.