Paddy, mick, rowdy and thick… Here is the place for song and story, debate and debauchery, tantrums and tears over poor Mammy at home by the hearth. Be you born and bred in the Ballybeg bogs, or raised in Texas wrestling hogs, you’re welcome to enter a blog for some words and watch the world go round… Well, it’ll be spinning by the end of a night in here anyway!
Summary
C-level strategist with several start-ups with strong skills in Social Media and Social TV Architecture and Analysis – Community/SNS building using Open Source technology. New Media publishing and remodeled old school print media using on-demand technologies. Top notch communicator.
Adept team player – a publisher, writer, photographer, marketing director, web developer and graphic designer with more than 20 years experience in the development and operation of newspapers, magazines, web media and marketing of multinational, companies in international settings.
Well travelled yachtsman (24,000 nm offshore – two Transatlantics/one TransPac), outstanding problem solving skills. Published first article to crewing on boats as a lifestyle called ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Sea’ in 1991. Lived aboard sailboats in Caribbean for a decade and built €1.200.000 catamaran in Brazil in 2004.
Current
• Chief Strategy Officer – CSO – Worldticketshop – Netherlands
• Chief Executive Officer – CEO – Agora Media Group, London
• Advisory Board Member of Tel Aviv-based Zephyr Financial Technologies.
• Advisory Board Member of Pixengo, UK
• Consultant with Travolon Belgium in building news, opinion and multilingual social media portal for European Travel Industry.
• Built own company in Holland – Expathos – focusing on Social media analysis and strategy, new media publishing, and open source technologies.
Past
• Board member and shareholder of Sparkling Media UK, building Cross Media Social Platform (CMSP) merging telephony 2.0, web, TV, and Virtual environs (3D).
• Managed the marketing departments of two Caribbean-based multinational marine companies.
• Editor and publisher of several Caribbean publications.
• Extensive media history with various publications – Native Press in the Canadian Arctic, freelanced for a number of magazines in boating and travel.
• Skippering sailboats offshore over 15 years as professional skipper.
Specialties
* C-level strategist, Social Media, Social TV and Converging Media analyst and consultant, Creativity and Innovation.
Open Source Evangelist.
