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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.


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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.