ABOUT POLECAM
Polecam Limited is active globally from its Headquarters base near Bedford, England and is recognised across many different markets to include Broadcast, Extreme Sports, Medical, Military & Security, Industrial & Commercial, Corporate, Natural History and emerging markets for specialist Property, Wedding and Music environments; as the market leader for super lightweight, highly portable camera jib, minicams, lenses and remote control systems.
Polecam is proud of its heritage and encompasses a broad range of complementary skills in-house to include 3dCad Design & Modelling, Engineering and Design workshops, Assembly and Test areas, Warehousing & Despatch, Sales & Marketing and Accounts & Administration.
Additionally Polecam employs and utilises the skills and services of UK based suppliers and manufacturers – which enables and ensures the highest quality is achieved throughout each process for each and every rig.
Polecam was founded in 1998 by Steffan Hewitt, BSc(hons) Metallurgy & Material Science.
STEFFAN HEWITT
Steffan’s background includes a spell as an apprentice cameraman/editor for FM Television covering all forms of motorsport and then as a freelance extreme sports cameraman including filming from helicopters, motorbikes and cablecam. A steadicam operator who also spent 4 years on the Windsurfing and Snowboard world tour.
It was while on the Windsurfing World Tour that Steffan created his very first Polecam.
While directing a series of windsurfing kit commercials in Hawaii, he needed to obtain close wide-angle front sequences of a windsurfer in action, shot from a tracking boat or jet ski. Steffan improvised a rig comprising a miniature camera on a carbon-fibre windsurfing mast. Returning to Britain, he developed a lightweight go-anywhere rig with a remote joystick controlling a high-precision pan and tilt head. Polecam is now supplied with a range of options all with precision engineered remote controlled pan/tilt heads.
Meet the team
MIKE MACDONELL
Director
Mike joins Polecam at an exciting time of product design and innovation. Cricket coach, Arsenal fan and under-achieving golfer, Mike is a serial entrepreneur with a track-record of building high-performing teams and successful companies.
SARAH BEES
Accounts & Logistics
Manages the daily Accounts and Administration operations including both international and domestic shipments; additionally overseeing the control of stock and allocations on a daily basis.
JOE GREEN
Engineer & CAD
Joe brings to Polecam some young fresh eyes having just qualified from Nottingham University with a 1st Class Masters Degree in Mechanical Engineering. He will be building, servicing, repairing both AutoPod and Polecam systems. His love of snowboarding is suited perfectly to this job????? I spent 4 years as a cameraman on the Snowboard World Tour - he’ll fit in fine.
MAREK JAMROZ
Product Administration Engineer
Marek has been at Polecam since 2012. A keen and accomplished photographer is also known as ‘Magic’. His organisational skills in the warehouse soon developed into product assembly and testing. In conjunction with Sarah & Joe, he is now responsible for everything that leaves the factory.