Kidscreen Summit is renowned as the kids entertainment industry’s most important annual event. In 2013, the conference welcomed more than 1,600 attendees from 47 countries. Top executives attend Kidscreen Summit to take advantage of the year’s best business networking, and to engage in critical dialogue on issues that affect the industry.
1,600 delegates
47 countries represented
98% plan to attend again
99% would recommend the
event to colleagues
400+ content buyers
900+ producers/distributors
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1980 Worked in the theatre as a stage manager and assistant director
1985 Started as a runner in the BBC
1988 Joined BBC Children’s as an assistant producer and started working on Blue Peter
1992 Became a director in Children’s Entertainment and then Children’s Drama
1995 Started producing Grange Hill
1999 Became Controller of Granada Media Children’s: co-creating, My Parents Are Aliens, and exec producing, Childrens Ward, Girls in Love, Don’t Eat the Neighbours, Seriously Weird, Jungle Run, 24/7 and North Hollywood High, Illustarted Mum…
2003 Controller CITV: commissioning, award winning , My Life as a Popat , and Little Reindeer as well as, Best Friends, My Parents Are Aliens, Barking , Ministry of Mayhem, Help I am a Teenage Outlaw, Worst Witch, and many more.
2004 started as Controller of ITV daytime
2006 Programme Director ITV Digital Channels, overseeing ITV2, ITV 3 and ITV4.
2007 Head of CBBC Drama, Animation and Acquisition: My Almost Famous Family, Dead Gorgeous, Tracy Beaker,
2009 Head of CBBC In House Production across all genres and platforms: overseeing a raft of content including - award Winning Tracy Beaker and Newsround Alcohol Special , Blue Peter, Sadie J , Cop School – Project Parent , Serious Livingstone, Just William…
Present – Creative Director Foundation TV.
Have four children, Finn, Ben , James and Becky live in London
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