Leading the digital product development and technology transformation of QA’s classroom based training business and the integration of recent startup acquisition CloudAcademy.com.

Reporting to the CEO, 125 staff, responsible for Product, Development, UX, Video, IT, Data, Audience DevelopmentMember of the Senior Leadership Team leading carve out from RELX.- Large scale refactoring and replacement of tech/suppliers to focus on speed and performance, covering front-end and back-end tech stacks. Responsive website is now rendering at target under 2 seconds per page and delivering the site to users faster than leading competitors The Economist, The Week and Radio Times. - Initiated and led a key strategic initiative with the launch of ‘Science Database’ tailoring New Scientist content for organic search, presenting personalised subscription content based on interest and propensity to purchase. This project returned a 174% increase in new audience.- Rearchitected advertising tech stack for high impact ad viewability, introducing a head bidding marketplace with multiple premium ad exchanges, significant YoY impact of £130k incremental programmatic revenue (growth of 225%) vs 2018.​ - Fundamentally improved UX and standardisation of design language across digital product portfolio (all Apps and Websites) in just under 12 weeks.- Doubled traffic from just over 3.2m to over 8m uniques per month in 2020 through accelerated NPD, SEO, Automation, UX and improvements in Continuous Delivery. - Pitched and launched NewScientist Shop in 2019 delivering over 250k revenue in first year.Sold to Daily Mail and General Trust plc (DMGT) for £70m in March 2021

Reporting to the CEO, 1400 staff, responsible for 150 FTEs (including Product, Development, UX, Design, Video, Data, Audience Development)Founding member and part of Senior Leadership Team with full budget responsibility for £8m annual spend on product development, technology, design and innovation. - Led technical due diligence and delivery on acquisitions of BBC Magazines from BBC Worldwide in 2011, Cycling and Craft portfolios from Future Publishing in 2014 and Hitched.co.uk market leading weddings marketplace in 2015.- Restructured development operations, improving efficiencies and implementing a structural foundation for commercial growth and product innovation. Scaled resources to facilitate expansion from 35 to 150 staff with agile product development teams in London, Bristol, Camberley, Redditch and Manchester. - Quadrupled traffic from just over 9m to 45m uniques per month in 16/17 through accelerated NPD, SEO, Automation, UX and improvements in Continuous Delivery. - Doubled EBITDA from £22m in 2012/13 to £40.5m in 16/17 beating investor expectations against 5 year planSold to Hubert Burda Media for £270m in January 2017About Immediate Media Co... The special interest content and platform company. UK’s biggest consumer media businesses with revenues of £150 million per annum. Reaching millions of people every month with over 70 brands. 70 million magazines sold each year and with over one million subscribers we have a highly engaged audience and deliver content across a range of platforms – whether it is through print, online, digital apps for tablet and mobile, e-commerce or at live events. Our wholly owned brands include Radio Times, Olive, BBC Good Food, Homes & Antiques and highly successful digital brands including MadeForMums.com, BikeRadar.com and Hitched.co.uk. We publish BBC Top Gear on behalf of BBC Worldwide as well as BBC History, BBC Gardeners’ World, BBC Focus and CBeebies portfolio, under licence.

Founding member (team of 5) raising £1.4m VC funding to start network of sports sites in Europe, growing from standing start to 250 staff and digital EBITDA of over £1m, leading to successful exit to Exponent Private Equity for £13m in 2006.Member of the Senior Leadership Team with full budget responsibility for £2m annual spend on product, development and innovation. Reporting to the CEO, 250 staff, responsible for 40 FTEs (including IT, Product, Development, Design, Audience Development) .- Conceived and established product and technology division from inception- Architected in-house content management and e-commerce platforms, introducing open source technologies to accelerate development where no strategic value- Initiated and led successful cost-effective launch of over 100 websites, including award winning Runnersworld.co.uk (2003 AOP Best Consumer Launch) for Hearst Publishing and Madeformums.com (2010 AOP Best Consumer Launch) with a growth rate of three new sites a month in 2007- Successfully led integrations and technical due diligence on multiple acquisitions, operating across two office locations and managing transition from digital only to digitally led cross-media publisher- Winner 2010 and 2011 AOP Best Independent Digital PublisherMerged into Immediate Media with acquisition of BBC Magazines in November 2011

Technical specialist providing 3rd line crash diagnostics for Fujitsu ICL on the Sainsbury's and John Lewis contracts.