
A highly experienced and versatile multi-award winning editor and news and feature writer who has covered a wide range of patches over a varied career.
Has excellent team building and management skills and exceptional contacts, particularly in The City and broader business community. Accustomed to meeting extremely tight deadlines writing analysis and a daily comment column as well as breaking major news stories.
Responsible for the Standard's entire business output as a key member of the leadership team. This included writing or commissioning a weekly spread in the print edition and writing and overseeing all the business content on the website and social media.
Also chaired numerous business "round tables" and panels hosted by the Standard on subjects such as London's 5G and wifi connectivity crisis. Led a major campaign against the Mayor's decision to impose the congestion charge on EV drivers.
In addition I served as a judge on the AXA Start Up Angel awards, run in partnership with the Standard.
Key member of the Standard's business team covering sectors such as energy, water, aviation, transport and construction.
As well as working for the Standard's pink pages I also wrote many splashes and page leads for the main news pages.
Led The Times's coverage of major stories such as British Rail privatisation and the Channel Tunnel fire.
Worked in The Times's political office with special responsibility for reporting on the House of Lords
Responsibilities included covering insurance sector with a focus on the Lloyd's of London disaster when famous "names" faced huge losses.
Appointed aged just 23 after less than 18 months on the title
Worked on launch team on weekly corporate finance newspaper
Carried out research for an investigation by Capitol Hill lobby group into non-performing Emerging Market debt held by US banks