Experience

Investment Monitor

• Online Audio and Video Media
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Managing Editor

  • May 2020 - Present

  Part of Global Data Media. Part of Global Data Media.



Financial Times Business

• Ghana
• Media Production
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Production Manager

  • Jan 2006 - May 2020

  I led the production team of The Banker, fDi and GRR magazines. I was responsible for every aspect of the production side of the magazines, from organising the flatplan, to overseeing the quality and design of the pages, to sending the final proofs to the printers. I was also responsible for the quality and flow of content of the websites of the two magazines. I managed a small team of full-time production journalists and a wide array of freelancers. My responsibilities also included liaising with the advertising, marketing, design and ad production teams. Show less



The Decade

• Religious Institutions

• Book Author

  • Apr 2016 - Apr 2019

  Authored an oral history of Hull City AFC which featured contributions from more than 125 former players, managers, owners and fans. The book has been a huge success, with 100% positive rating across almost 90 reviews on Amazon and Goodreads. It has also raised about £15,000 for the Dove House Hospice in Hull, through 1,900 copies sold. The book, which is almost 300,000 words long, was self-published through Amazon. Authored an oral history of Hull City AFC which featured contributions from more than 125 former players, managers, owners and fans. The book has been a huge success, with 100% positive rating across almost 90 reviews on Amazon and Goodreads. It has also raised about £15,000 for the Dove House Hospice in Hull, through 1,900 copies sold. The book, which is almost 300,000 words long, was self-published through Amazon.



Centaur Communications

• Pakistan
• Public Relations and Communications Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• sub-editor

  • Mar 2003 - Jan 2006

  Worked on Marketing Week magazine as a sub-editor, proofing copy, writing headlines and standfirsts, and laying out pages. I also wrote and edited the magazine's popular Diary section, which provided an acerbic look at the marketing and advertising worlds. Worked on Marketing Week magazine as a sub-editor, proofing copy, writing headlines and standfirsts, and laying out pages. I also wrote and edited the magazine's popular Diary section, which provided an acerbic look at the marketing and advertising worlds.



Press Association

• Ukraine
• Public Relations and Communications Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• chief sub-editor

  • Jan 1997 - Mar 2003

  After joining the Press Association as a junior producer, through a series of promotions I worked as the chief of an 18-person strong team responsible for producing print-ready TV and entertainment pages for the Daily Express and its associated titles. I then moved on to work in a similar role, but across all Trinity Mirror titles. In my time at the Press Association, I also worked on The Sun, The Telegraph, The Observer and all Associated Newspapers titles (Daily Mail, London Evening Standard, Mail On Sunday, etc...). Show less