Roderick Saxon Snell is a British

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, born 1940, who co-founded Snell & Wilcox in 1973, working full-time for it from 1988. The company grew to about five hundred people in the late 1990s. Snell remained on the board during the period 2002-2008 when for financial reasons the company contracted, became part-time after that and left the new company in 2011. Snell is a visiting

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at the Business School of the

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, Surrey, a fellow of the Royal Television Society, and a governor of the

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(SMPTE). He received the

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highest award, the Progress Medal, in 2006 for his numerous contributions to television technology, and the

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has presented him their presidential award in 2000. Snell, a keen amateur helicopter pilot, co-founded Snelflight in 1998 as designers of indoor model flying machines. Recent models include the world's first jump jet and the world's smallest remote controlled flying novelty. Snell is the great grandson of the architect

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. He married Cecilia Gordon Clark, daughter of Alfred Gordon Clark in 1972; they had three children. Cecilia Gordon Clark died in 1999 and he subsequently married Helen Paul. Snell's second son,

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, was British High Commissioner to

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from 2011 to 2014.website of UK government senior figures
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