Mini Boden, the children’s line of Boden, is planning a local shoot in Barrington, near Burford.

The retailer is looking for children to take part in the shoot.

Boden is looking for girls or boys between three to 10 years old, and height around 100 to 145cm.

The brand currently sells in John Lewis department stores.

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The shoot will take place on the town often referred to as the ‘gateway to the Cotswolds’.

The Cotswolds have been used for numerous shoots, with British Vogue regularly using the area as a location for its countryside fashion stories.

One of the most modern fashion shoots in the Cotswolds was the British Vogue feature in 2018 starring David and Victoria Beckham at their Cotswolds estate.

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SOFIAH NICHOLE SALIVIO

News Editor

SolarWinds has appointed Justin Henkel as Chief Information Security Officer. He joins the software company from OneTrust.

Henkel takes on the role after nearly five years at OneTrust, where he began as Head of the CISO Centre of Excellence and later became Deputy CISO. His work focused on enterprise risk, resilience, and security operations.

The appointment brings in a security executive with experience across government and private-sector roles. Henkel also served as an intelligence officer in the United States Air Force from 2001 to 2025.

Before OneTrust, he held cybersecurity leadership roles at CME Group and iSIGHT Partners, focusing on threat intelligence. His background also includes vulnerability management and third-party risk.

Henkel takes on the remit as organisations face a more complex security environment and growing pressure to manage cyber risk across large, distributed technology estates. SolarWinds sells observability and IT management software to customers operating hybrid and distributed systems.

Security background

Henkel’s career spans military intelligence, financial services, and corporate cybersecurity. That mix is relatively uncommon in senior information security appointments, particularly at software suppliers serving a broad base of enterprise and public-sector customers.

He holds a master’s in intelligence studies, focused on political and military intelligence, from the American Public University System. He also has an executive certificate in technology and operations from MIT Sloan School of Management.

The leadership change also reflects how software groups are placing greater weight on senior security roles as cyber governance becomes more closely tied to operational decision-making. Boards and executive teams are giving resilience, threat monitoring, and third-party risk closer scrutiny.

SolarWinds remains closely associated with cyber resilience in the market’s eyes following the far-reaching security breach disclosed in 2020, which drew sustained attention from customers, regulators, and the wider technology industry. As a result, clients and partners are likely to watch senior security hires at the company closely.

Sudhakar Ramakrishna, President and Chief Executive Officer of SolarWinds, linked the appointment to the company’s security posture and broader technology direction.

“As the threat landscape grows more complex and threat actors more sophisticated, we need a CISO who has operated at the highest levels of both public and private sector security,” said Sudhakar Ramakrishna, President and Chief Executive Officer of SolarWinds.

“Justin’s breadth of experience across government and industry makes him exceptionally well positioned to strengthen our resilience posture as we continue to push the boundaries of what’s possible in AI-driven IT.”

Broader remit

The reference to AI reflects a wider issue facing technology suppliers and their customers as they bring new automation and machine learning tools into production systems. Security leaders are being asked not only to defend infrastructure and applications, but also to assess how those tools affect data handling, access control, and incident response.

At SolarWinds, the Chief Information Security Officer role sits at the intersection of internal security, product trust, and customer assurance. That can include oversight of resilience planning, threat intelligence, security operations, and governance processes that large customers increasingly expect to review.

Henkel described the move as coming at an important moment for the company.

“I’m proud to be joining SolarWinds at such a pivotal moment,” said Justin Henkel, Chief Information Security Officer of SolarWinds.

“I see a company that has shown both singular resilience and genuine innovation, and I believe together we’ll set a new standard for operational resilience that helps our customers confidently accelerate in the age of AI.”

His appointment comes as software companies continue to compete for senior security leaders with experience in intelligence, cyber operations, and enterprise risk. Demand has risen as customers ask tougher questions about how vendors secure products, manage vulnerabilities, and respond to incidents.

That pressure has extended beyond regulated sectors such as finance and government into mainstream enterprise software, where procurement teams often expect more detailed information on security controls and resilience measures before signing contracts.

Henkel’s background in threat intelligence may be particularly relevant in that environment, as companies try to move from reactive incident handling to a broader view of attacker behaviour, supplier exposure, and business continuity. His experience in both the Air Force and private-sector security teams gives him exposure to the cross-disciplinary risks many companies now face.

He joins SolarWinds after serving as Deputy CISO at OneTrust and following a military career that ran from 2001 to 2025.

SOFIAH NICHOLE SALIVIO

News Editor

London startup Cascade has launched the open beta of its AI-native production platform for storytelling, aimed at creators, studios, agencies and brands.

Founded by film and virtual production executives whose credits include Avengers: Endgame, No Time To Die, Wicked, Masters of the Air and Pinocchio, the platform is designed to support projects from early development through final delivery in a single production environment.

The software uses what Cascade describes as an agentic AI framework built around filmmaking workflows. It is intended to help users develop ideas, build assets, manage projects and run production processes through natural language interaction, while keeping creative control with human users.

Cascade is entering a crowded market for AI image, video and content generation tools. Its founders, however, are positioning the company around production management and continuity rather than stand-alone generation. A central part of that pitch is an asset-based system designed to help users keep characters, visual style and intellectual property consistent across projects.

The platform can combine AI-generated material, existing creative assets and live-action production in one place. Cascade is targeting a broad range of output, including teasers, trailers, advertising campaigns, episodic series, animation, films and music videos.

Chief executive officer and co-founder Simon Windsor said the business was formed in response to gaps the founders had experienced in film production.

“Too many great stories never make it to screen – and we built Cascade to change that,” Windsor said.

He added: “We didn’t set out to build another AI generation tool. That’s not what the industry needs. What we’ve created is the all-in-one production environment we wished we’d had throughout our careers.

“The creativity has always been there, but what the industry has been missing is a platform that connects everything – one that supercharges high-grade production while respecting the creative process and helping storytellers bring ambitious ideas to life.

“That’s what Cascade is: the production platform modern storytelling has been waiting for. We’re redefining who can make films, how fast they can make them, and at what quality.”

Founding Team

Cascade was co-founded by Windsor, a former co-chief executive officer of Dimension Studio; Junaid Baig, a former lead of DNEG rendering and pipeline; and Darren Hopkins, a technology entrepreneur, former chief financial officer of Dimension Studio and chief executive officer of AI investment firm Mollyroe. The company has also named Dominic Wheatley, co-founder and former chief executive officer of Eidos, as chairman.

The line-up reflects an effort to combine film production, visual effects, gaming and finance experience at a time when media companies are testing how AI fits into established production pipelines. The sector has drawn both investment and scrutiny as creators weigh gains in speed and cost against concerns over authorship, ownership and creative control.

By focusing on workflow, asset management and project continuity, Cascade is seeking to appeal not only to independent creators but also to production teams handling repeatable franchises, branded content and longer-form series work. Its emphasis on maintaining ownership of intellectual property across projects points to one of the central commercial questions in AI-assisted media production.

Open beta access is now available as the startup begins testing the platform with users across film, advertising and content production.