View my profileWELCOME. I’m a UK-based consultant, editor, journalist and author. Also a former editor of Which Computer? who launched and fronted the first business tv service for the Information Technology (IT) industry – The Computer Channel.
In 30 years of editing and contributing to consumer and b2b publishing outlets – online, print, radio and tv – I've built up expertise in business technology & telecommunications, science & the European Research Area (ERA), health & medicine, marketing and sports – with Formula One motor racing & rowing.
Currently I’m editing the market leading magazine for the professional audio-visual industry which is 40 years old in 2012 – AV. Two things make AV magazine very different from its competition. It is the only AV communications title in Europe that covers all aspects of professional AV. It is also the only AV title in Europe that serves end users — the buyers of corporate AV — as well as producers, resellers, systems integrators, distributors and manufacturers. I’m responsible for the entire brand portfolio of AV, which includes AV UK and AV Europe print magazines, our online environment, the annual AV Awards, AV100 PowerBook and Directory, the AV Audio Academy and all related supplements and activities.
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CC hosting the AV Awards night
AV AWARDS: Traditionally, the evening is one night in the year when the entire professional audio visual industry can let its hair down.
This year, the Hilton Park Lane was the venue, and I acted as host alongside comedian and awards-announcer Alun Cochrane who hit the spot with his own particular brand of wit and repartee.
Winners and a full review can be found in the November-December 2011 issue of AV magazine (page 32 onwards of AV Europe – see above). Alternatively, why not feast your eyes on the video cut here.
ROWING: Our colleagues at Oxford Brookes University Boat Club are trying to raise £1 million to extend their boathouse on the River Thames at Cholsey.
OBUBC has produced some of the best rowers in the world. The club is a direct route to the British team and has the strongest undergraduate rowing squad in the country.
By backing the Boathouse Campaign you have the chance to push Great Britain towards even more glory in London 2012, and add to Oxford Brookes' tally of Olympic gold medals won by Ben Hunt-Davis, Fred Scarlett and Rowley Douglas at Sydney, and Steve Williams at Athens and Beijing.
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FORMULA ONE: The London Design Centre used my business book Formula One: Made in Britain – which details the British influence on Formula One racing and its technology – as the basis for its major new exhibition at Shad Thames, SE1 2YD: Formula One, The Great Design Race. The event won Design Week's award for 'Best Temporary Exhibition'. Currently, it's on tour. Having moved on from the Design Museum, Finland, it has visited the Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, the National Museum of Singapore and the National Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington.
