• Head of product for Reuters News Agency (the B2B news arm of Reuters).• Oversee a portfolio of products relied on 24/7 by the world’s news publishers, broadcasters & platforms.• Responsible for product strategy & vision, product development and product management for the agency’s core subscription products (including newswires, video, photography & archives) as well as related newsroom production tools & delivery platforms, including APIs.• Lead & coach a high-performing, diverse international team of product managers.• Championed the adoption of AI at Reuters and launched multiple AI-powered features, including Reuters first AI video analysis product (‘AViSTA’), providing automated video shot-listing, transcription, translation & person recognition capabilities. Also a member of the team leading Reuters internal newsroom AI transformation.

• Head of product for Reuters video and television services globally.• Set the strategic vision and led transformation of Reuters video product portfolio.• Successfully executed a two-year transformation programme to radically simplify the portfolio, re-launch key services and work with the engineering team to move video production and distribution into the cloud.• Built & launched the Reuters Live service, a hugely successful new product delivering significant ongoing, double-digit revenue growth.• Designed & launched a new generation of the Reuters 'World News Express' broadcast integration platform, successfully taking a new hardware product to market globally.

• Part of senior management team at a fast-growth digital start-up (backed by All3Media, Liberty Global & Discovery.) • Company operated internationally, specialising in creating, distributing, optimising & monetising video on digital platforms such as YouTube, Facebook & Instagram for major broadcasters, publishers and rights owners. • Reported to the founder and CEO, with a wide-ranging senior management role spanning strategy, development, revenue generation and executive production.

• Head of ‘MediaCom Beyond Advertising’, the digital innovation & content division of MediaCom, the UK’s leading media agency (part of WPP/GroupM).• Led and managed a 50-strong, cross-functional team of specialists spanning content strategy, SEO, social media, UX design and production. • Reported to the CEO of MediaCom UK and held P&L management responsibility for the division.• Built award-winning digital & content experiences for multiple blue chip clients, including Volkswagen, Coca Cola, Direct Line Group, Shell, Sony, the UK Government, Cancer Research UK and many more.• Led MediaCom’s strategic thinking about the role of content in building brands; developing and communicating frameworks for use across the company and working directly with board level clients to implement digital change within their organisations.

• Led the BBC's portfolio of factual & lifestyle web products including BBC Food, BBC Health, BBC Arts and BBC Gardening: re-launching them in 2010 to collectively double audience reach to over 5 million unique users a month.• Oversaw digital strategy & online output for the BBC’s factual TV show brands and worked with channel controllers and TV commissioners to develop major innovative new cross-platform products and services based on TV brands.• Commissioning Editor for the BBC’s digital projects across factual, documentary & arts genres, responsible for a £6m commissioning fund for digital innovation, online products and cross-platform television formats. • Commissioned and executive produced multiple award-winning digital & cross-platform projects, including Wallace & Gromit’s World of Invention (BAFTA TV awards New Media winner 2011), Britain From Above (Digital Emmy winner 2009), Stephen Fry’s Last Chance to See (Digital Emmy nominee 2010), Your Paintings (BIMA winner 2011), Adam Curtis’s It Felt Like a Kiss and many more. • From 2005 to 2007 I was Commissioning Editor of ‘BBCi’, the BBC’s Emmy award-winning 24/7 interactive news, information & entertainment service, responsible for editorial strategy, content commissioning and product direction.• During my time as commissioning editor the service achieved its highest ever peak in usage, regularly reaching an audience of over 12m a week in the UK & winning the 2007 international Emmy award for ‘Best Interactive Service’.

• Led new product development for BBC News in digital video, streaming audio, interactive TV & emerging platforms.• Managed a cross-discipline, agile team responsible for creating a string of ground-breaking and successful new services including the BBC News & Sports Player (a forerunner of BBC iPlayer), 2005’s interactive general election coverage (Digital Emmy nominated), BBC News’s first VOD and mobile video services, and BBC News’s first digital billboard news service.• Responsible for developing and launching new audio and video features and content across the BBC News website and for managing editorial production products to enable cross-platform video editing and publishing by producers.

• Responsible for digital product development and publishing innovation for CNN, Cartoon Network and Turner Classic Movies (TCM) brands across multiple European markets.• Played a key role in launching important new digital services including CNN.com Europe, Cartoon Network’s games channel, CNN International Mobile Text Alerts and CNN and Cartoon Network branded VOD channels.• Advised Turner Europe board on costing and structuring new media opportunities and served as digital product and production consultant on JV initiatives with partners including Germany’s n-tv, Sweden’s TV4 and Canal+ Spain.

• Production lead for a multi-disciplinary team (design, technology & editorial) within BBC News developing new kinds of services using then newly emerging streaming video and interactive television technology. • Launched some of the earliest publicly available interactive TV and on-demand news services in the UK, which won a number of industry awards, including a Royal Television Society award for innovation.

Writer, sub editor and audio/video producer for the BBC News website.

Writer, producer and duty news editor working across the ITN, Channel 4 News & Euronews websites (at the time all were run from a central ITN digital team).

Interaction design, copywriting & front-end development for clients such as ITV, British Airways & Shell.