Simon Bax is the CEO and Chairman of Archant.
Simon has held a number of senior executive positions in the media industry including Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Chiat/Day, the global advertising agency; as CFO and President of Studio Operations of Fox Filmed Entertainment, the parent of Twentieth Century Fox and subsequently as EVP and CFO of Pixar Animation Studios.
In 2008, he co-founded and became Chief Executive of Encompass Digital Media Inc, an international leader in the provision of network origination services and fibre transmissions and digital media encoding services.