Career
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 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).
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 Henry Saxon Snell.
Snell"s second son, Arthur Snell, was British High Commissioner to Trinidad and Tobago from 2011 to 2014.
