The company grew to about five hundred people in the late 1990s.
[1] Snell is a visiting professor at the Business School of the University of Kingston, Surrey, a fellow of the Royal Television Society, and a governor of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE).
He received the SMPTE highest award, the Progress Medal, in 2006 for his numerous contributions to television technology,[2] and the British Kinematograph, Sound and Television Society has presented him their presidential award in 2000.
Snell, a keen amateur helicopter pilot, co-founded Snelflight[3] in 1998 as designers of indoor model flying machines.
Cecilia Gordon Clark died in 1999 and he subsequently married Helen Paul.