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London, England, Gb

London, Gb

Los Gatos, Ca, Us

Los Gatos, Ca, Us

Building Netflix's distribution partnerships in UK & Ireland

Los Gatos, Ca, Us

Leading Netflix's business partnerships across EMEA

London, Gb

Responsibilities across BBCW’s digital activities, including BBC.com, Top Gear, BBC Store, games, apps and long form & short form digital video sales.1. P&L responsibility for global consumer digital businesses including BBC.com features sections and homepage, short form video publishing on platforms like YouTube, the Global iPlayer pilot and BBCW Labs, our digital incubator programme. Achievements included:- strong growth in non-news audience and revenue on BBC.com.- strong growth in views and subscribers on YouTube.- Deep gain in understanding & skills for OTT video services going forward.- 11 deals with early stage companies through Labs bringing innovation into BBCW.2. Consumer Digital Strategy & Business Development:- Set coherent global strategy for digital activities, working collaboratively to ensure that the senior leadership team were efficiently engaged & positioned to invest in growth areas. We now have a profitable portfolio with like-for-like digital revenue growth +50% in 3 years.- Re-organised underperforming teams & restructured entire digital division as part of corporate re-org from business unit to geographical structures, delivering significant cost savings and aligning with wider corporate strategy.- Identified/analysed new business opportunities including BBC Store & BBC.com features, building and presenting business cases and driving investments to achieve corporate strategic objectives & revenue growth.3. Global VOD Sales Strategy & Digital Business Development:- Drove partnerships and revenue from short form video on platforms including YouTube & Spotify.- Worked with regional digital sales teams to more than treble revenues from SVOD/EST services. - - Worked collaboratively across the BBC Group to ensure a coherent approach to partnerships.

London, Gb

Responsibilities across BBCW’s digital activities, including BBC.com, Top Gear, BBC Store, games, apps and long form & short form digital video sales.1. Consumer Digital Strategy & Business Development:- Set coherent global strategy for digital activities, working collaboratively to ensure that the senior leadership team were efficiently engaged & positioned to invest in growth areas. We now have a profitable portfolio with like-for-like digital revenue growth +50% in 3 years.- Re-organised underperforming teams & restructured entire digital division as part of corporate re-org from business unit to geographical structures, delivering significant cost savings and aligning with wider corporate strategy.- Identified/analysed new business opportunities including BBC Store & BBC.com features, building and presenting business cases and driving investments to achieve corporate strategic objectives & revenue growth.2. Global VOD Sales Strategy & Digital Business Development:- Worked with regional digital sales teams to more than treble revenues from SVOD/EST services, the fastest growing part of BBCW’s business, focusing in particular on our key global clients: Netflix, Amazon, Apple and Google. - Worked collaboratively with colleagues from within BBCW and across the BBC Group to ensure a coherent approach to partnerships with companies like Apple, Microsoft and Facebook.

London, Gb

- Reshaped A&N’s digital portfolio to make it more profitable and better positioned to realise shareholder value. Worked with management teams to identify & evaluate bus dev/M&A opportunities across existing classified ad businesses and innovative new businesses areas, including Wowcher, Socialmetrix (Latam), Jobsite & Digital Property Group/Zoopla.- Led deals efficiently through business modelling, internal approvals, negotiation and due diligence while managing a diverse range of stakeholders across the business. - Initially joined AN Digital then transitioned to A&N Media as company was restructured.

London, Gb

Involved in all aspects of investment from deal origination and execution through to active management of portfolio companies, driving returns to investors. Achievements included:- Analysis of market trends to identify multiple investment opportunities and worked with 2 startup management teams led by Malcom Gerrie and Charles Garland to build business cases so we could create and invest in their businesses.- Involved in 7 principal investments totalling in excess of £30million, completed 5 acquisitions for investee companies and 2 exits/restructurings maximising investor returns.- Primary contact for 4 portfolio companies across TV production, marketing services, live events, and video game sectors, building strong relationships with management, and contributing to strategy, business development & reporting /monitoring so companies were best placed to grow and aligned with fund management to drive investor returns.- Built strong internal network across senior management and made multiple presentations to Investment Committee to close investments efficiently. Also presented at Investor Relations events to ensure stakeholders saw value in our investments.

Burbank, Ca, Us

Senior Finance Analyst for television distribution division of The Walt Disney Company (then called Buena Vista International Television), providing financial analysis to sales teams & MD on multi-million £s of TV sales deals across UK, Nordics and Iberia territories, including major output deals with Pay TV and FTA broadcasters.

Worldwide, Oo

Transitioned across to Deloitte as Andersen was acquired, remaining part of small team successfully advising major client, WPP, on tax structuring & due diligence for a number of acquisitions. I built a strong grounding in financial and legal aspects of M&A and advisory work, and an excellent understanding of business finance.o Qualified ACA with first time passes and won 2nd prize in Case Study

Part of small team successfully advising major client, WPP, on tax structuring & due diligence for a number of acquisitions. I built a strong grounding in financial and legal aspects of M&A and advisory work, and an excellent understanding of business finance.

Set up and ran a London listings website with two partners, providing information and reviews across London’s entertainment scenes. Built team of c.100 writers to attend events across the capital, provide reviews and write content that they were able to publish through our technology platform.