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The bringing together of all the major constituencies from the media and creative industries was well conceived and timely and made for a very worthwhile couple of days for delegates and speakers alike.
Eric Nicoli
Chairman - Vue Cinemas (Former Executive Chairman EMI group and HMV Group)
Chief Executive, Ten Alps
Co-founded Ten Alps 1999 with Bob Geldof, and listed it in 2001 on AiM, after a TV and Radio production background at BBC, Granada and Planet 24.
Ten Alps has made 20 acquisitions and is now a leading independent factual media producer - high-quality TV, online TV and B2B content. Companies within Ten Alps include production companies Brook Lapping, Films of Record and Blakeway, which between them make broad, agenda-setting documentary output for BBC, Channel 4 and many other broadcasters, as well as globally-recognised online education channel Teachers TV.
Ten Alps also publishes around 700 trade titles, making it a market leader in multi-platform B2B and public sector contract publishing, ground-breaking corporate responsibility content production company DBDA and online corporate video producer Twenty First Century Media amongst other communications businesses.
Revenue 2008 was over £80m, Alex has been several times shortlisted as Entrepreneur of the Year. He is currently Entrepreneur in Residence at INSEAD (Fontainebleau), Governor of Manchester Metropolitan University, Advisory Board member of Salford University Media School, board member of Northwest Vision and Media, and a NESTA mentor to startup media companies. He has a BA from St John's College, Oxford in Politics and Economics, Master's in Journalism from Columbia University (New York), and MBA from INSEAD.