David Jones Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, CA, US

AEG is one of the leading providers of live entertainment and sports in the world. AEG owns and operates some of the world’s best arenas and theatres and companies dedicated to producing, promoting and presenting world-class live entertainment.I joined AEG in 2008 as the UK IT Director, was promoted in 2011 to head up the Europe-wide technology function.

Salt Lake City, UT, US

SEAT is a forum for professionals and executives working in technology, marketing, fan engagement, CRM, business intelligence, analytics and sponsorship in the sports and entertainment industry. It organises conferences around the world, including in the US, Europe, and AsiaPac, and is the only peer-driven conference where the sports and entertainment.

SMG, Virgin Radio's parent company, underwent an internal restructuring which took out a lot of the groupwide structures. I was invited to join the Executive Management team and to head up a new Technology Services department at Virgin Radio, which was a merger of IT and Broadcast Engineering. Broadcast technology is moving away from traditional analogue.

Ginger Media Group was acquired by the Scottish Media Group in May 2000. Renamed as SMG, the group owned the Herald and Evening Times newspapers in Glasgow and the STV and Grampian ITV television franchies in Scotland. In addition to Virgin Radio and Ginger Television, SMG also owned the London-based Pearl and Dean (cinema advertising) and Primesight.

London, GB

[This was a voluntary un-paid position, which I occupied in addition to my employment at the Ginger Media Group.]The British Youth Council (BYC) is an organisation led by young people for young people, aged 25 and under, which exists to empower all young people to have a say and be heard. It is an umbrella organisation of youth organisations and local.

I joined Ginger Media Group shortly after Chris Evans had bought Virgin Radio from Richard Branson's Virgin Group and merged it with his Ginger Television production company.Initially, my role was to provide IT support to the Virgin Radio Sales team, but a few months after joining I was asked to become the group's first Head of IT. I went on to spend ten.

London, GB

While at University, and for a short period afterwards, I provided freelance IT services to the European Movement, an international pro-European lobbying organisation.At the time, the organisation was significantly ramping up its number of staff in anticipation of a referendum for the single currency which, alas, was never to materialise.

While studying for a chemistry degree at Oxford University, I joined the team that was working to bring a permanent student radio station to Oxford. We ran a successful month-long trial broadcast in September 1995, from which we lobbied the then Radio Authority to advertise a radio licence for Oxford city centre.Oxford Student Radio went on to win that.