Cat is a BAFTA and Royal Television Society award winning Executive Producer, who runs her own Manchester based independent production company usually employing around 30 plus people to make documentaries, current affairs, factual formats and drama documentaries for BBC One, Channel 4, Channel 5, BBC Three, CBBC, C&I Network, Bio and TLC (The Learning Channel in USA).

Cat set up Nine Lives in September 2007 and is the company’s owner, CEO and one of its Executive Producers. Nine Lives is the biggest factual producer in the North West and one of just three companies in the UK which has an output deal with Channel 4’s Dispatches. Cat has been on the Pact Council for four years and is Chair of the Nations & Regions Committee. She is the founder and chair of the North’s Indie Club, is Vice Chair of Creative Skillset’s TV Panel and is on the RTS Committee in the North West.