Before moving into mobile, he was Director of New media at Telegraph Media Group where he is widely credited for spearheading the transformation of The Telegraph from a newspaper into a fully integrated 24/7 multimedia group.
The Telegraph Media Group (previously the Telegraph Group) is the proprietor of The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph.
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Escenic customers include: Schibsted, De Telegraaf, News UK, Telegraph Media Group, Trinity Mirror, SVT (Swedish TV), Axel Springer, JP/Politikens Hus, Independent, WAZ, TV2 Norway, Dallas Morning News, Infoglobo, The Hindu, The Globe and mail, RSI and many more.
ITN ON offers a range of news and entertainment and lifestyle content to online operators including Google, YouTube, Yahoo!, Bebo, Bauer Media, Emirates, MSN, Telegraph Media Group, blinkx, Channel 4 News and the first local newspaper group to sign to the service Midland News Association.
He left to become editor of The Independent on Sunday from 1998 to 1999, then returned to be Editorial Director of Hollinger's Telegraph New Media, the internet arm of Telegraph Group Limited, from 2000 to 2003 and Editorial Director of Telegraph Group Limited from 2003 to 2005.
Murdoch MacLennan, Chief Executive of the Telegraph Media Group, and Rebekah Brooks, then editor of The Sun, were witnesses.
Guest adjudicators at the final have included Michael Gove MP, Secretary of State for Education; Viscount Cranborne, now the Marquess of Salisbury and former Leader of the House of Lords; the historian, Andrew Roberts; Guy Black, Lord Black of Brentwood, Executive Director of the Telegraph Media Group; author and parliamentarian Lord Dobbs, and the acclaimed journalist and leader writer of The Times, Rosemary Righter.