Project Advisors

  • Dan'l Hewitt, Demand Media

    Dan'l is currently Director Strategic Partnerships EMEA at Demand Media. Previously he developed the content and audience strategy for VBS.tv, the online television network owned by Vice; and also consulted with Yahoo! Europe working specifically on their video offering together with global rights owners and production relationships. Between 2007-09 he was head of digital content at Bebo.com and currently hold a non-executive position with SouthWestScreen. In all he has 10 years experience in all aspects of high-growth technology and media businesses, from start-ups and incubators to public companies across Europe and the US. Areas of expertise include social networking and online communities, 360 marketing strategies, content acquisition, branded entertainment, online ad sales, strategic and commercial deal making, and e-commerce.

    Dan'l Hewitt © Toby Farrow 2009
    @danlhewitt
  • Gavin Henderson, BBC

    Gavin is currently an Executive Producer at BBC. He was previouslyHead of Programmes at Presentable TV in Cardiff, part of the RDF Media Group, before leaving to become a freelance television and media consultant for a number of companies including the BBC and various Independents. He moved to Bristol seven years ago to set up and run the Endemol West studios. The studios have since produced a wide range of reality, entertainment and interactive formats and are now home to C4’s Deal or No Deal.

    Gavin’s production credits include Don’t Forget Your Toothbrush, The Big Breakfast, Artschool, Big Brother, The Games and the BBC3 multiplatform series Upstaged. He is also an external examiner and lecturer in Television Production at Falmouth University.

    Gavin Henderson, BBC © Toby Farrow 2009
    @GavinHenderson
  • James Richards

    James Richards is Director of Chromatrope, a multiplatform consultancy with a particular interest in strategy, innovation and special projects.

    James was previously a development executive for the BBC where he set up and ran both the Vision Multiplatform Product Development and Learning Development teams. He is interested in the creative applications of technology and the development of new narrative forms as a way to reach new or hard to reach audiences. James has produced projects on behalf of the BBC for TV, radio, online, interactive TV and pervasive media platforms.

    @kidhelios
  • James Touzel, Partner, TLT LLP

    James is head of the Technology & Media Group at UK law firm TLT.  He has been with TLT for over 14 years, throughout that time working with established and early-stage technology and media organisations.

    He is known for his work with digital media and mobile telecoms businesses, covering social networking, location based services and new media collaborations, where he advises on the contractual, intellectual property and privacy issues. He also deals with technology development and licensing arrangements, IT procurements and managed service solutions.

    James is actively involved in the development of early-stage media businesses and the related support networks. He is a trustee of Watershed Arts Trust Limited and non-executive chair of iShed CIC, who have a mission to pioneer innovation and new technologies in the creative industries. He is also a member of Science City Bristol.
    www.tltsolicitors.com/sectors/technology-and-media

    James Touzel, TLT LLP © Toby Farrow 2009
  • Kenton O’Hara, Microsoft Labs

    Kenton O’Hara is Senior Researcher in the Socio Digital Systems Group at Microsoft Research in Cambridge where he is interested in social and behavioural practices of tangible and embodied interaction with pervasive technology. He has looked at a wide range of technologies applications in public settings, including crowd based games with large displays, location based experiences, mediascape authoring, cross media alternate reality games, interactive tabletops and collaborative jukeboxes.

    Kenton has authored over 60 publications and two books on public displays and collaborative music consumption. He has previously worked at at CSIRO in Australia as Director of the HxI Initiative, HP Labs, Rank Xerox EuroPARC and the Appliance Studio. He has worked on numerous award winning projects including the BBC’s BAFTA and Royal Television Society award winning “Coast” location based experience.

  • Nicole Yershon, Ogilvy

    Nicole Yershon began her career in advertising 25 years ago at Simons Palmer and GGT, two of London’s most renowned creative agencies.

    In 2000, she joined Ogilvy London where she now works as the Director of Innovative Solutions. In her first four years at Ogilvy she overhauled the agency’s broadcast and video capabilities, taking them from analogue to digital, with the creation of RedWorks Broadcast.

    Consolidated in 2007 into the Ogilvy Digital Innovation Lab (part of a worldwide network), the agency’s innovation activities have seen Nicole build partnerships between industries and across media channels to fuel unprecedented creative campaigns, and educate, both within the agency and beyond, speaking at global conferences and building clients Labs of their own.
    www.ogilvy.co.uk/ogilvy-interactive/

    Nicole Yershon, Ogilvy
    @nicoleyershon
  • Peter Swain, AlwaysOnMessage

    Peter's career in digital spans 15+ years advising a host of Blue Chip Clients including Yell.com, Sony, Williams F1 and a Royal Court or two.

    With a history of enabing companies to integrate new technologies into their business, Peter moved his focus to mobile in 2007 seeing the iPhone as 'the game changer'.

    Today Peter is the Managing Director of AlwaysOnMessage, a Bristol based Smartphone App Agency creating Apps for iPhone, iPad, Android and Blackberry Platforms with clients in the UK and USA including: Avaya, The Economist, Endemol and Technicolor.
    www.alwaysonmessage.com

    Peter Swain, AlwaysOnMessage
    @peter_swain

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