As a media analyst, Colin is widely regarded as one of the foremost authorities on the economics of the global entertainment production and distribution landscape. He is a Managing Partner at the Cairo-based MAD Solutions, the world’s leading distributor of Arab-language films and also the world’s largest promotional agency and management company for Arab creative talent. He is also spearheading a venture to build Iceland’s first purpose built film and TV studio that will also be the world’s first fully “green” filmmaking complex.An award-winning film business journalist by background, Colin was formerly the longest-serving editor of the respected film business publication “Screen International”, during which time he conceived and launched several of the publication’s highest profile initiatives including its online service "Screen Daily".Colin currently teaches the “Globalization of Media & Entertainment” course at New York University’s Stern School of Business. He has also taught "The Future of Film” class to graduate students at the NYU Tisch School of the Arts. As a Faculty Committee member of NYU’s Cinema Research Institute, the forerunner to the NYU Production Lab, Colin awarded annual fellowships to new models of financing, producing, marketing and distributing media and entertainment. Colin is a regular researcher and writer for SPI Olsberg, the London-based consultancy company for whom he has devised the first comprehensive report on what is spent annually on film and TV production around the globe. A frequent lecturer/speaker on the future of the world’s storytelling business, Colin has been a mentor and advisor to Storytek, the content accelerator and creative innovation hub based in Tallinn, Estonia. Colin spent six years as a member of the senior team of Slated, the data-driven film financing platform. As its Editorial Director, Colin oversaw the creation of informational tools and educational resources that bridge the communication gap between the investors and filmmakers. His influential “Filmonomics” blog posts helped decode entertainment financing and were widely circulated.Prior to joining Slated, was a Contributing Editor at “CNBC Business”, the international magazine where he spent three years writing across on a range of topics including film, media, technology, start-ups, cities, hotels, clean-tech and the collaborative workplace. As a film critic, Colin has been invited on numerous film festival juries including that of the Sundance Film Festival - where he helped judge the world cinema dramatic competition in 2009.