Experience

DMC

• Business Consulting and Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Retired

  • Sep 2022 - Present



Direct Marketing Commission

• Chief Commissioner at Direct Marketing Commission

  • Jun 2008 - Present

  Been with DMC since 2008 and took over as Chair/Chief Commissioner in June 2010. Non-exective role setting strategy and making adjudications on cases investigated by the Secretariat.Building stakeholder relations and broad accountability for performance. I am also a member of the Governance Committee of the related trade body, the Direct Marketing Association. During 2009 I worked on strategic issues over "digital direct marketing" and regulatory boundaries. My focus in 2010+ is on strategic sector reviews designed to audit standards and develop improvement options.

• Chair

  • Apr 2010 - May 2020



Online Dating Association

• United Kingdom
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Former Chief Executive

  • May 2018 - Apr 2021



The Senet Group

• 60 Gray's Inn Road London

• Chief Executive

  • Aug 2016 - May 2018

  Senet is the independent body responsible for standards and messaging activity in relation to responsible gambling. Senet is the independent body responsible for standards and messaging activity in relation to responsible gambling.



Online Dating Association

• United Kingdom
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Executive

  • Aug 2013 - Aug 2016

  Chief Executive of the newly founded UK trade association for online dating. The ODA is focused on building a healthy UK market based on effective consumer protection delivered trough a code of practice and high levels of industry compliance and responsibility Chief Executive of the newly founded UK trade association for online dating. The ODA is focused on building a healthy UK market based on effective consumer protection delivered trough a code of practice and high levels of industry compliance and responsibility



Council for Licensed Conveyancers

• Council member non-executive director

  • Mar 2010 - Aug 2016

  I am one of three lay/independent members of the Council. We regulate those who study/register with CLC to act as coveyancers or to offer promate servies. We provide regulation (like others) in support of goals/principels set by Legal Services Board. As director I am focused on strategy and accountability. I chair the remuneration/reward sub committee. I am one of three lay/independent members of the Council. We regulate those who study/register with CLC to act as coveyancers or to offer promate servies. We provide regulation (like others) in support of goals/principels set by Legal Services Board. As director I am focused on strategy and accountability. I chair the remuneration/reward sub committee.



UK Fundraising Regulator

• London, United Kingdom

• Chair of Preference Service Working Group, Board member

  • Dec 2015 - Jun 2016



UK Public Affairs Council

• Chairman Independent Council member

  • Jun 2010 - Jun 2015

  The UKPAC monitors principles/standards of conduct in lobbying and will (from October 2010) manage a register of UK lobbyists. The work - sponsored by all leading trade bodies in the sector - was designed to increase transparancy and built trust. The Government has now created another new statutory body at ten times the cost and publishing less than a quarter of the content....the cost of coalition? The UKPAC monitors principles/standards of conduct in lobbying and will (from October 2010) manage a register of UK lobbyists. The work - sponsored by all leading trade bodies in the sector - was designed to increase transparancy and built trust. The Government has now created another new statutory body at ten times the cost and publishing less than a quarter of the content....the cost of coalition?



Phone-paid Services Authority

• United Kingdom
• Telecommunications
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Executive

  • Apr 2000 - Oct 2008

  I ran PPP for over eight years. In that time the sector regulated expaned as responsibilities passed to us from Ofcom. It was a £200m market in year 2000 and a £1billion market arount the time of my departure I ran PPP for over eight years. In that time the sector regulated expaned as responsibilities passed to us from Ofcom. It was a £200m market in year 2000 and a £1billion market arount the time of my departure



Cabinet Office

• Deputy Director Better Regulation/ Equalities Divisions

  • Oct 1994 - Apr 2000

  Att DTI, then at Cab Office, I headed de/better regulation work. I was responsible for appointment of the Better regulation Task Force and for the creation and marketing of the "Haskins" Five Better Regulation Principles, for work for the PM on risk communication, for new common enforcement policies, for the Deregulation Act powers and their use and for development of Regulatory Impact Assessments. In Equalities Unit/Woman's Unit I led work on careers choice, education and pay/pensions.



Diplomatic Service/Chicago

• British Consul

  • Apr 1990 - Sep 1994

  British Consul in Chicago and Head of UK Inward Investment/Economic development team responsible for marketing UK to US businesses in 20 Central/Southern states. British Consul in Chicago and Head of UK Inward Investment/Economic development team responsible for marketing UK to US businesses in 20 Central/Southern states.