Experience

Canelo Digital Publishing

• United Kingdom
• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co-Founder

  • Jan 2015 - 9 years

  London Founding a new digital publisher specialising in ebooks, apps and digital partnerships. Finding and producing gripping ebooks for the mass market, offering industry leading royalties and licence terms, in-house production, full editorial and digitally lead marketing campaigns.



of Books

• Arts & Crafts

• Writer

  • Jan 2011 - 13 years

  Four books and numerous articles and pieces of journalism published. See: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hh7XKfIfzc9vIZxLyvKWixtxgifCgeistEkKI0TuY30/edit Lead author of LITERATURE IN THE 21ST CENTURY report.



DeepMind

• United Kingdom
• Research Services
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Writer in Residence

  • Jul 2017 - Jul 2019

  London, United Kingdom Consultancy role with the DeepMind Ethics & Society team.



Profile Books

• United Kingdom
• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Digital Publishing Director

  • Jan 2010 - Jan 2015

  Responsible for overall digital strategy and business development, driving digital sales, digital marketing and new product and platform creation across the business. Worked with some of the UK's top writers, media groups, charities, think tanks, arts organisations and businesses on publishing projects



Pan Macmillan

• United Kingdom
• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Digital Editor

  • Jun 2007 - Jan 2010

  Devising and managing comprehensive, profitable ebook programme and workflow from negotiating rights through to retail and marketing. Digital strategy, blogging, mass digitisation programmes, retailer communication and innovative projects including the first books on the iPhone.



Quik Communications

• Co-Founder

  • Jan 2008 - Dec 2009

  London, United Kingdom Business investigating digital to physical interfaces, primarily uses of barcodes. Survives in the form of http://quikqr.com, a popular QR code generator with +45k uniques a month. Acquired by visualead.com.



Rogers, Coleridge & White

• United Kingdom
• Business Consulting and Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Literary Agent

  • Aug 2005 - May 2007

  Arranging, drafting and negotiating contracts/agreements with publishers, writers and the media; helping manage an extensive client list



The Daily Telegraph

• Australia
• Newspaper Publishing
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Books Desk

  • Jun 2006 - Aug 2006

  Subsequently a paperbacks reviewer.