Career
He is a Non-Executive Director of the Department for Communities and Local Government since January 2013, where he sits on the Department’s Audit and Risk Committee. Previously he was Strategy Director at Independent Television where he led the merger integration of Carlton Television (now Independent Television London) and Granada and developed the concept of Freeview alongside the British Broadcasting Corporation. He was also Chief Financial Officer for Laura Ashley where he led the financial restructuring of the business. From 1990-1998 Nick Markham was a councillor and Deputy Leader of Westminster Council.
Nick Markham is Chairman of Inview Technology, the supplier of middleware to digital set top boxes and TVs.
Inview has been developing EPGs, broadcast data service and digital television software platforms since 1996 and was first to launch on Digital Terrestrial television in the United Kingdom. Digital terrestrial broadcasting began in the United Kingdom on Sunday 15 November 1998, was among the first countries in the world. Markham has advised companies and Governments in Indonesia, Vietnam, the Philippines, South Africa and Nigeria on Analogue Switch Office.
He is also Chief Executive of Top Up television, which supplied a range of linear pay television channels on DTT including Sky Sports 1, 2 and Entertainment and Sports Programming Network (the United States-based global cable and satellite television channel) and which provides conditional-access modules (CAMs) and technical services to British Telecom Vision. According to the Government website Government.uk Top Up television was the first successful pay television operator on digital terrestrial television in the world.
