Owner of several business and service directories and urban and business regeneration companies.

Director with responsibility for Marketing and Online at Puraglow Limited.

Investment Group

Sophisticated customer acquisition and retention framework utilising multiple channels but with a single integrated customer view. Highly targeted and timely marketing through mobile, social, the web and offline to acquire new customers coupled with a data-driven loyalty and rewards program to keep them.

Beep! comprises a marketing and loyalty framework for iPhone, Android, Windows and Blackberry mobiles which uses a sophisticated combination of push technology and user-data profiling to deliver highly targeted and timely messages called Beep Alerts to the app users' mobile phone.Alerts can be warnings, reminders or sales messages and can be accompanied with redeemable coupons and vouchers which channel the user towards making their purchase with a particular website or through the EPOS system at a physical store. Coupons and vouchers can drive sales to the distributor or provide external rewards, offers and coupons to assist in building brand loyalty. The initial focus is on the UK automotive sector with an international roll out to follow. Customers and distributors include: Insurers; Aggregators; Insurance Brokers; Vehicle Manufacturers; Motoring Organisations; Dealerships; Finance Houses (and through them smaller dealerships and leasing companies); Car sales websites Car repairers and networks; Retail partners and other motoring offer providers.

Online magazine for covering all aspects of Customer Loyalty and rewards programmes.

Planning and inception of a new concept law practice which encompasses eight limited companies dealing with all aspects of motor insurance claims from first notification of loss to final settlement.

Legal helpdesk in the motor sector along with provision of motor legal protection and dispute mediation to both consumers and the motor trade.. Business development consultant for a number of firms in the legal and automotive sectors.

Claims consultancy specialising in the Automotive sector. Delivered claims handling provision for Autolaw from October 2011

Established UK's leading legal helpdesk and Q&A website where people could pose a question regarding a legal problem and get a free answer from a lawyer and if they wished, take it further. Primarily a lead generation service for the legal profession. Marketing of Autolaw Legal Protection which at its peak had 450,000+ members through a combination of free and paid-for legal protection contracts.

Interactive televison gaming service.

Development of an Artprint Catalogue website with delivery centres in Florida (for USA), Antwerp (for Continental Europe) and London (for Great Britain and Ireland. Subsequently sold to Art.com and Getty Images.

Involved in a number of projects including the development of Freeserve and development and sale of Sports Internet (now SkyBet)

Interactive hotel booking start-up later sold to Expedia

Covering former Soviet Union

Award-winning correspondent specialising in conflicts and disaster coverage.

Hard-hitting news-driven features.

Africa Correspondent. At the time South African passport holders could not travel. As a European passport holder I was able to travel anywhere on the African continent.