Since being an excited 16 year old working on a Saturday at my local radio station, I have spent my life in media. I've watched the transformation of the industry and am excited to have been at the heart of it during probably the most dynamic period of change in its history. The birth of online services and the disruption and opportunity which that has provided have been central to my career in the last 15 years. The journey has taken me from radio, through digital music and now into Virtual Reality.My first start-up was the company that Tim Blackmore and I founded in 1989 with two staff and a single desk - Unique Broadcasting, We took Unique through much growth, many changes and quite a few mistakes, to emerge in 2014, through a reverse merger, as 7digital - a provider of B2B radio and music services in 42 countries with offices in London, San Francisco, Copenhagen and Kiev.During those 25 years of growth, we spawned other new dynamic start-ups, both from the talents of staff who have left us to develop their own businesses and through our investment in companies like the fast growing audio social networking company "Audioboom".It has been a tremendous journey, one I could not of dreamt of when I started in radio in 1982, becoming Head of Programming at Piccadilly Radio in Manchester.I served as CEO at 7digital for nearly 5 years, a period in which we consolidated our marketplace, acquiring two competitors and doubled our turnover. I'm immensely fortunate to have worked with many, many talented people in building those companies.In 2017 I began work with another fast-growing company Melody VR - and in April 2019 moved to become that company's Senior Non Executive Director. During 2020, my experience in the streamed music business proved useful in Melody's acquisition of digital music pioneer, Napster.Two years later and we negotiated a sale of the merged group to Algorand, valuing the business significantly higher than its then UK stock market valuation.