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Mark was appointed CEO in June 2004 and has driven the rapid growth of the Group and its recent acquisition activity. Following a period during which he was a consultant to the Group, he joined as Commercial Director in 2003 before assuming the CEO role. Prior to TMN, Mark had a 15 year career at the forefront of new media and publishing, including taking Rapide Publishing to a £20 million turnover during the 1990s, and helping DealTime UK, later Shopping.com, move to strong and consistent revenues from start-up.

Craig joined TMN Group in June 2007. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant with PricewaterhouseCoopers. He has 20 years of financial management experience, predominantly within the media and entertainment sectors. He spent 10 years with Virgin, in both corporate finance and finance director roles, and following that he was CFO of The Telstar Music Group and The Hospital Group before rejoining Virgin as CFO of V2 Music Group.

Paul has a long and established background in market research, working in Australasia, the Americas, EMEA and the UK with clients that included Microsoft, the International Herald Tribune, O2, Tourism Australia and Virgin Money, to name a few. Prior to joining The iD Factor, Paul worked as the client services director for Roy Morgan International, helping establish and set up their business in the UK. In 2005, he was appointed research and insight director of The iD Factor and 18 months later was responsible for the creation of the Group’s research consultancy division, ICD Research. Paul now oversees both expanding divisions.

Gavin Male is responsible for the revenue interests of TMN Media, managing aspects such as new business development and strategic partnerships. Gavin has worked for the Group since April 2002. During his career within the Group, Gavin has sold a range of digital marketing solutions and built long-term relationships with major blue-chip clients and a number of the key online media agencies. Gavin has worked his way up through the division from a sales account manager to his current role as Sales Director. A physics graduate with more than ten years of sales experience, he joined the group from an IT and new media recruitment background where he began forging his first relationships in the new media sector.

Since the acquisition of EDR, Tom has overseen the successful transformation of the company from a full service email media company into the UK’s leading email planning and buying agency. Tom was a founder member of EDR in 2000. He left the company in 2002 to complete an MSc in marketing and compete at the Commonwealth Rowing Championships, returning as Media Director in 2004. Tom previously worked in the digital planning team at Manning Gottlieb OMD on clients including Yahoo, Virgin Trains and MoreThan.

Mark is responsible for the commercial development of all TMN Media properties and non-sales operations. Mark has recently joined TMN after a successful stint at Tri-Direct where he led the establishment of their digital marketing division. Mark first started his online marketing career at DoubleClick where he developed his expertise across a range of online marketing disciplines, delivering services for the likes of Procter & Gamble, Sainsbury’s and Intel. In later years he turned his attention to client-side operations, focusing specifically on user experience and web usability, and led the development of consumer websites for Ntl:Telewest (now Virgin Media) and BT. Mark is a law graduate with more than 8 years digital marketing experience.


The Board


Peter has 20 years' experience in buying or building successful businesses, predominantly in the media sector. Peter has played an active role in a number of private equity deals and has gained extensive experience on the boards of both public and private companies. He is currently the Chairman of cross-media publisher Magicalia Media Ltd, of the data and subscription specialist Optima WDIS, and of Advance Media Information. He is a non-executive director of Chrysalis Venture Capital Trust and was a non-executive director of Datamonitor plc until its £500m sale to Informa plc last month. He is also the founding director of Keyways Publishing Ltd. In recent years he has also been Chairman of IT analysts the Butler Group until its sale to Datamonitor and was Executive Chairman of media monitoring group, Precise Media, until it was sold for £42m to Phoenix Private Equity last year.

Mark became CEO of TMN Group in June 2004, driving its rapid growth and acquisition activity. He had initially been a consultant to TMN Group and then became commercial director before assuming the CEO role. Prior to TMN Group, Mark had a 15-year career at the forefront of new media and publishing including taking Rapide Publishing to a £20m turnover during the 1990s, and helping DealTime UK, later Shopping.com, move to strong and consistent revenues after starting up.

Craig joined TMN Group in June 2007. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant with PriceWaterhouseCoopers. He has 20 years of financial management experience, predominantly within the media and entertainment sectors. He spent 10 years with Virgin, in both corporate finance and finance director roles, and following that he was CFO of The Telstar Music Group and The Hospital Group before rejoining Virgin as CFO of V2 Music Group.

Vince has 11 years’ experience in private equity. He has a business degree and qualified as a Chartered Accountant, spending four years with the corporate advisory division of Price Waterhouse. He then joined HIT Investments plc as a director. He left three years later to co-found Cairnsford Associates Limited, the private equity division of J. Leon & Company Ltd.

Bruce Fair is the Commercial Director of Yahoo! Marketplace UK. Bruce joined Yahoo! when it acquired Kelkoo in 2004. He has more than six years of extensive e-commerce experience covering the full business cycle and specialises in the field of online retail. In his current role Bruce is responsible for both direct and agency revenue generation across Kelkoo, Yahoo! Cars, Yahoo! Finance and Yahoo! Business Development, and manages several key accounts including eBay, Amazon, DSG and Moneysupermarket.com.