Daren Forsyth

Current

• Founder at 140Characters.co.uk

Past

• Director of Innovation & New Media at Media Trust ( BBC Attachment)
• Senior Manager, Business Development at BBC
• Founder & Managing Director at Fernhart New Media

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Education

• Kelsey Park School For Boys

Recommended

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Connections

187 connections

Industry

Online Media

Websites

• My Company
• My Company

Daren Forsyth’s Experience

• Founder

  140Characters.co.uk

  (Online Media industry)

  March 2009 — Present (9 months)

  140Characters.co.uk is a Strategic Consultancy and Connecting Organisation
  
  The purpose of the organisation is to create connections and trust networks between all main industrial sectors, Private, Public and Third Sector via digital and electronic methods.
  
  The organisations launch client is the CBI (Confederation British Industry).

• Director of Innovation & New Media

  Media Trust ( BBC Attachment)

  (Non-Profit; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

  December 2007 — February 2009 (1 year 3 months)

  Innovation and New Media activity within The Charity, Voluntary and Community sectors (The Third Sector - http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/the_third_sector.aspx )
  
  Report to Trusttee board that includes Chairman - Andy Duncan CEO Channel 4, Depuy Chairman - Jon Snow News Anchor Channel 4 News, Mark Thompson DG BBC
  
  Its a huge challenge, but great at the same time.

• Senior Manager, Business Development

  BBC

  (Public Company; BBC; Broadcast Media industry)

  April 2006 — February 2009 (2 years 11 months)

  My primary role was to deliver strategic partnerships for the BBC with Global Technology vendors - Microsoft - IBM - CISCO - Apple. I also worked on partnership elemnts of the BBC iPlayer and Archive Projects.
  
  Bill Gates signed my first BBC partnership with the Director General of the BBC (Mark Thompson), I'm quite proud of that, and enjoyed meeting Bill and working with Mark

• Founder & Managing Director

  Fernhart New Media

  (Online Media industry)

  April 1997 — September 2005 (8 years 6 months)

  Fernhart was one of the UK's Most Respected New Media Agencies during the dot com boom of the late 90's and early 00's. Clients including, BBC, ITV, Channel4, Sky, Sporting Index and Domino's Pizza. I sold the business in 2005

Daren Forsyth’s Education

• Kelsey Park School For Boys

  1979 — 1984

Additional Information

Daren Forsyth’s Websites:

• My Company
• My Company

Daren Forsyth’s Groups:

MIX 07 Las Vegas, BBC Digital Olympics Committee

•    Idealist.org
•    Social Media Professionals Association
•    Twittering

Daren Forsyth’s Honors:

DTI / E-Consultancy Top 100 Pioneer of the first Internet Decade

Daren Forsyth’s Contact Settings

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