Founder and primary creative lead for this full-service video production company, offering brand and agency clients end-to-end production services for online and broadcast video content. Successfully delivered hundreds of commercial documentaries and content campaigns for brands including Amazon Prime, Barclaycard, Bentley, British Airways, Cross, Destination Canada, Dorchester Collection, Hyatt Hotels, Krug, Mandarin Oriental, McKinsey, Mercedes Benz, Monocle, Tesco, Toyota and many others.• Head of Production – Overseeing all stages of production, for both small and large-scale projects, including client management; budgeting; planning and execution; assessing and signing off on crew requirements; risk management and Health and Safety; all legal requirements and licensing.• Creative Lead – Acting as creative lead on the majority of productions, including initial briefings and liaising with the client; concept creation, pitching, and script writing; casting and talent management; effectively orchestrating shoot and overseeing crew as well as acting as DP; managing edit and delivery process; music supervision.• Client & Stakeholder Engagement - First point of contact for all stakeholder and client liaison: fostered and maintained longstanding client relationships, many of which came via personal recommendation; researching, sourcing, and working respectfully and collaboratively with talent, influencers, and crew; understanding and effectively satisfying the needs of multiple stakeholders, including Broadcasters, Clients, Advertising Agencies, Production companies, Directors and Producers, Talent, as well as Crew.• On Set - Extremely technical skillset, with in-depth, multi-disciplinary knowledge of production and hands-on experience with high-end camera and editing hardware: Resourceful and versatile DP, camera op, and video editor; highly proficient in lighting, colour grading, audio recording and audio post-production; skilled drone and gimbal operator.

Co-produced a web music series in collaboration with brands, record labels, festival promoters, and artists.• Content Producer – Produced over 180 studio sessions and live performance videos; organising shoots; editing footage; maintaining content catalogue; and distributing content.• Brand management – Managing social media presence; writing blog posts and web content; liaising with journalists and bloggers; and developing partnerships with brands.

Responsible for all marketing, communications and strategic partnerships with advertising agencies and brands for this mobile app Start-Up.• Marketing & Communications - Successfully devised and implemented the marketing and communications programme focusing on technologically enabled advertising and media campaigns: drafted and created all marketing assets to communicate technical elements, repackaging them as new media products and innovative advertising technology offerings; conceptualized ways to commercialize the product; internal communications.• Business Development - Proactively spearheaded the commercial partnerships campaign: Evaluated and assessed market; created business plan; identified potential partners, initiated contact and secured meetings with key decision makers at advertising agencies; presented to the Heads of Digital at top agencies in London, effectively pitching the business concept and negotiating contracts and strategic partnerships.

Efficiently managed a music agency within an online streaming computer game. This involved sourcing catalogues from record labels and independent artists and offering them for sale and streaming within the online gaming environment. Licensing and Rights management was integral to this role.• A&R – Built and licensed a rossiter of over 200 record labels across the genres of Drum & Bass, Dubstep, Electro, Grime, Raregroove, and UK Hip Hop: researched and mapped the UK underground music scene; sourced catalogue of artists; initiated contact and forged lasting relationships with artists and labels; Effectively handled all rights management and legal matters concerning the artists.• Music Supervisior, ‘Slips’ (MTV) – The quality of the artist catalogue within the streaming gaming environment resulted in a partnership with MTV, who wanted access to the underground music scene for their show ‘Slips’: originated and synchronised an original catalogue of selected tracks specifically for the show; executed all legal aspects, including licensing for every track of the series.• Modball Rally – Successfully shot and directed a film about a 3000 mile 250 car road rally from London to Bratislava and back, as part of the launch and distribution of the gaming platform. This film was selected as the official launch video of the rally and was distributed as a DVD on the cover of Max Power Magazine to a readership of 50,000.

Headhunted from JP Morgan, responsible for portfolio management and strategy of Deutsche Bank’s occupational EMEA portfolio. Personally managed a portfolio of real estate assets across the Middle East, Central and Western Europe and the UK, including: sale & leaseback, sourcing new locations and successfully re-negotiating leases and occupancy requirements, releasing millions of dollars from the balance sheet; worked with Project Management, Building Management, Finance and the MDs of each business vertical, overseeing multi-million pound budgets and reporting to the board to obtain internal funding approvals.

Working within a team of four, responsible for portfolio management and strategy of JP Morgan Chase Bank’s occupational EMEA portfolio, this role was identical to the role at Deutsche Bank.