Career
His first job as a school leaver was production assistant on Home Organist, working for Richard Desmond, now the proprietor of Express Newspapers. He then moved to Publishing Holdings, which owned list titles including What Mortgage and What Telephone. With four colleagues he set up and ran publishing co-operative Brass Tacks, publishers of Mortgage Magazine, during which time he helped football fanzine When Saturday Comes to gain national distribution and upgrade its production to magazine quality.
He joined the British Broadcasting Corporation after quitting the United Kingdom listings and information service UpMyStreet in 2002.
At the British Broadcasting Corporation he led the team which devised and developed the British Broadcasting Corporation iPlayer, which necessitated no fewer than 84 internal British Broadcasting Corporation presentations. In October 2008 he was appointed as the Controller of British Broadcasting Corporation Archive Development.
He was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) in the 2015 New Year Honours.
