After studying Classics at Bristol University, I started my career as a journalist, my first job was on the fabulous Shoe and Leather News (sadly no longer with us).
In 1990 I moved onto Media Week, where I started to learn about the commercial side of the media industry, and for the first time scratched the surface of something they used to call ‘new media’.
At sometime in 1993, I went online for the first time – and I was hooked, even though it took me about six months to work out exactly what I was doing. Ever since then I have been obsessed with all things digital. Honestly, I have no idea where my career would have ended up without the web. Thank you Tim Berners-Lee.
I spent three year’s freelancing, writing anything and everything I could about the internet and its impact on the media world. Then I decided it was time to stop writing and start doing, so I got a job at the Guardian in 1996 working on some of their first internet ventures.
I was launch editor of Guardian Unlimited in 1999, and moved into management a year later. I became the company’s first director of digtial publishing, and together with a smart and gifted team, we helped to develop an online operation that not only had a greater audience than any of its peers (at the time), but was also garlanded with awards from around the world.
In 2006, I moved to group HQ, as director of digital strategy and development for Guardian Media Group, working across all of GMG’s businesses.
I also took on the chairmanship of the UK’s association of online publishers; and in 2007 became a non-executive director of Eniro, the nordic’s leading directories and local search business.
In May 2010, I left GMG to take on my current role as Group Product Director at LOVEFiLM – I’m back doing what I love most, building brilliant digital products with super smart people.
I’ve kept many blogs – my favourite was 50 quid bloke, all about music, film and books – and that may be resuscitated later this year. And I once had an interesting run in with a posh magazine about Hitler.
Creative Disruption, is my first book. And probably my last – but I had to write it.
I’m married with three young children and live in Surrey. In what little spare time I have, I daydream about the next gadget I can’t afford to buy.
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