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London, Gb

London, Gb

Insurance DataLab is a market intelligence service, providing information on the underwriting and financial performance of UK and Gibraltar based insurance companies, alongside insights on pricing, claims, customer experience, complaints, and M&A activity.

Frank Media Projects is a consultancy business that helps information providers to achieve sustainable long-term success. We tend to focus on digital media and event projects covering transformation, product development and commercial strategy. Clients include Rockcliffe, Metropolis, and William Reed.

Fairer Finance is a ratings agency, consultancy business and consumer group aiming to help create a fairer financial services market - one that works fairly for both consumers and industry. It does this by campaigning, publishing unique fairness research, and by working with financial services companies to improve the customer experience.Fairer Finance rates financial services providers in a variety of product areas on how well they perform against four key metrics – customer happiness, customer trust, complaints performance and transparency. It also helps providers to improve transparency by reviewing, re-writing and redesigning online user journeys, terms and conditions, and other types of customer literature. And, it provides a complaints advisory service to advise providers on live complaints and to improve how complaints are handled.I worked closely with the founder on a consultancy basis to run and develop the business.

Insurance Times is the UK's leading premium news and insight brand for the general insurance industry, encompassing a magazine, digital information service and a portfolio of events including the Innovation and Disruption Conference, Broker50 and Insurance Times Awards (an event attracting an audience of almost 1,500 attendees). Insurance Times also produces an increasing number of high value research reports including the flagship Broker Service Survey. As publisher I was ultimately responsible for all aspects of the brand including the P&L, product development, and both the commercial and editorial operation.

As Managing Director of Maritime Information Services I was responsible for publishing Port Technology International - a quarterly technical journal and website for senior executives at the world's leading port authorities and terminal operators.

I was responsible for licensing, syndication and international development across all Centaur brands including Marketing Week, New Media Age, Creative Review, The Lawyer, Money Marketing and The Engineer. This included responsibility for identifying and agreeing partnerships with overseas media groups, content aggregators and other third parties. I'm particularly proud of agreeing Centaur’s first Far East and Indian ventures, launching an online content service to syndication partners, and negotiating new partnerships with leading brands on mobile platforms. I also produced original research analysing the B2B publishing environment in emerging markets including India, Brazil, South Africa, the Middle East, and the Far East.

I was originally recruited to run Centaur's network of engineering websites but since 2005 managed its supply chain and logistics portfolio of magazines and websites. This included Logistics Manager and Supply Chain Standard. In this role, I re-positioned and transformed the business from a single magazine publisher into the dominant multi-channel information provider for the supply chain community. This was achieved by re-launching both brands and launching a number of digital products including new jobs and property sites. I was also responsible for running the annual European Supply Chain Excellence Awards programme. Between June 08 and February 09 I was also responsible for publishing Public Private Finance - a subscription only print and online information service for those involved in public private partnerships.

At the time Adlink was one of Europe's leading digital sales houses. In this role, I was responsible for managing the relationship with its major clients including AutoTrader, Jazz FM, The Trainline, and The Met Office. This involved advising each client on their digital commercial strategy and being ultimately responsible for all advertising and sponsorship revenue streams that the AdLink sales team were selling on their behalf.

Ananova.com launched in April 2000 with huge global media coverage as the World’s first virtual newscaster. Ananova emerged as one of the UK’s largest online breaking news sites. Orange acquired Ananova from the Press Association soon after launch for £95million. In this role I was part of the launch team, responsible for selling what was at the time a brand new concept of clickable online video advertisements during video news bulletins, and managing the relationship with the third party advertising sales agency.

At Emap, I progressed from a senior advertising sales position on a financial services magazine aimed at IFAs (Planned Savings) to a commercial management role on the launch of Health Insurance - a monthly magazine also aimed at IFAs, including responsibility for launching the annual Health Insurance Awards.