Interviews – Technology – Jennifer Mowat
The general manager of eBay UK, Jennifer Mowat was no internet anorak. She tells us how easy it is to wise up to what’s going on in the dotcom industry and how to make the most out of e-business
Interviews – Technology – Larry Levy
Software entrepreneur Larry Levy founded Protégé to help North American technology start-ups expand into Europe. Since 1996, Protégé has successfully launched 22 US companies in Europe, providing senior management for the initial growth phase before handing control back to the parent company in return for an equity stake. Levy began his business career selling fake
Interviews – Technology – Glenda Stone
Glenda Stone is the founder and managing director of Busygirl.co.uk, a website for businesswomen. An energetic, exciting character, she moved to the UK from Australia two years ago, accompanied by a passion for bringing women online
Interviews – Technology – Azim Premji
Azim Premji, chairman of Indian software company Wipro, is the world’s third richest man after Microsoft’s Bill Gates and Wal-Mart’s Robson Walton. His personal fortune of $54.7bn dwarfs that of the Sultan of Brunei at $29.3bn. Justpeople asked him for the secrets of his success
Interviews – Technology – Iain Aitken
At 26, Iain Aitken is managing director of Freefund.com – a rapidly developing website that matches up students and scholarships. He gives us his views on the future of dotcom companies, and why a good idea is worth its weight in risk
Interviews – Media – Tom Moloney
Tom Moloney has been promoted to chief executive officer of Emap USA, the US’s leading publisher of specialist magazines. We asked Moloney what excites him about his new job and for his strategy for success
Interviews – Media – Clive Jones
Carlton Television chief executive Clive Jones, 51, started out in the TV industry 25 years ago. He worked for ITV companies Yorkshire Television, TVAM and TVS before arriving at Carlton. The company has received government approval for its proposed £8 billion merger with rival media firm United News & Media. Jones reflects on how UK
Interviews – Media – Peter Howarth
Peter Howarth, 35, has been UK editor of Esquire magazine for the past three years. He trod an unconventional path into journalism, reaching the editor’s desk via the Paris catwalk. He began his journalistic career by writing freelance magazine features. We asked him about his job and what advice he would give aspiring journalists
Interviews – Media – Richard Tait
Richard Tait is editor in chief of ITN, the London-based company that produces news programmes for broadcasters including ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5. ITN also provides radio and online news services, operates pan-European 24-hour news channel EuroNews and is gearing up to launch its own UK TV rolling news service. Tait came relatively late
Interviews – Media – Sham Sandhu
Sham Sandhu, 28, has been promoted from development planner at BBC1 to the newly created post of head of new media and new channels for BBC Production – the corporation’s programme making company. His brief is to boost the directorate’s output for the BBC’s digital, UKTV, online and interactive services. His role will involve working
Interviews – Media – Abigail Chisman
Abigail Chisman has been promoted from editor of Vogue Online, to editor of publishing company Conde Nast’s entire online operations. Cambridge University graduate Chisman, a self-confessed, champagne-quaffing socialite, studied fashion journalism before landing her first job at Conde Nast. We asked her about her new job and what the future holds
Interviews – Media – Michael Prescott
Michael Prescott is political editor of The Sunday Times where he has been a journalist for more than ten years. Educated at St. Catherine’s College, Oxford University, he then went on to do a degree in journalism at the Center for Journalism Studies, Cardiff University. He lives in Islington, with his wife Rachel Storm –
Interviews – Media – Gerard Baker
Gerard Baker is the Financial Times‘ bureau chief in Washington, where he lives with his wife and three daughters in American University Park. The combination of his exhaustive research and lucid style has given him an enviable reputation as an economic expert on both sides of the Atlantic. We caught up with him in the
Interviews – Media – Andrea Coleman
Andrea Coleman, 22, is an editorial assistant for Institutional Finance at Financial Times Business, a division of the The Financial Times that covers newsstand and trade publications such as The Investors Chronicle
Interviews – Media – Ruth Whippman
Ruth Whippman, 26, has worked for the News and Current Affairs department at the BBC as a broadcast journalist for the last two and a half years, and is about to start a new job as an assistant producer on Back to the Floor. She talks to us about the delights of freelancing, and the
Interviews – Media – Evan Davis
Evan Davis is the 37-year-old economics editor of Newsnight, the BBC television current affairs programme. We asked him about the challenge of presenting mainstream economics on television
Interviews – Media – Graham Stuart
Graham Stuart first brought the hit Channel 4 TV show So Graham Norton to our screens while controller of entertainment at United News & Media. In September 2000 he and Norton set up their own independent television company, So Television, to continue making the award-winning show and develop new comedy. He offers his advice on
Interviews – Media – Rob Corney
Rob Corney, 22, works as a graduate management trainee at Carlton Television.
Interviews – Media – Ben Backhouse
Ben Backhouse has recently joined London-based Talk Radio as a production assistant. Backhouse graduated from Bristol University in 1999 with a degree in English. Like many graduates he was keen on a career in the media, but unlike the majority, he has managed to achieve this. We asked him about the new job and whether
Interviews – Media – John Fitton
John Fitton, 23, works for The Lab – the experimental low cost TV production unit set up by LWT in January 1999. Fitton is a graduate of St Catherine’s College, Oxford, where he gained a first class honors degree in English. He gave us a few tips on how to break into the industry