PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
- Senior editorial and operational executive with leading media groups
- High-level transformational and start-up experience
- Extensive multi-national and multi-cultural skill
- Top-level experience of strategic and operational management
- Long-standing expertise of legal, finance, budget and HR
- Excellent contacts among key diplomatic and media players
- TV-trained, extensive representational experience
SKILLS
- A demonstrable capability for leading teams, thinking and communicating in a strategic and visionary way.
- Management of businesses striving to use the digital space to maximise marketing, branding and PR exposure.
- Experience of integrating digital and linear broadcast services
- An ability to motivate colleagues, with a leadership style encouraging collaboration and wide participation in decision-making.
- Ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships with stakeholders.
- Effective line management and performance management skills, setting and maintaining high standards personally and for others.
- Proven ability to run multi-million-pound capital and operational budgets.
PROFESSIONAL ORGANISATIONS
- 2016 - Non-executive Director, Celebro Media Ltd, London
- 2013 - 2015 - Juror, Royal Television Society News Awards, London
- 2009 - Advisory Board member, Hudson Union Society, New York (www.hudsonunionsociety.com)2013 - 2015
- Juror, Royal Television Society News Awards, London
- 2008 – 2011 Juror, International Academy of Arts and Sciences, New York (Emmys) (www.iemmys.tv)
- 2002 – 2003 Chairman, Foreign Press Association, Jerusalem
- 1993 – 1995 General Secretary, Foreign Correspondents Club, Seoul, South Korea
BIBLIOGRAPHY
South African Portfolio, Struik Publishers, Cape Town
