Simon has a 30-year media career at the juncture of creativity, commerce and technology. He now consults in the media tech space. Clients include;
Easelive.tv – interactive HTML5 overlays synched to live sports streaming for clients with tier 1 sports (e. g. NBA, MLB, NHL, Champions League) like YES Network, Red Bull Media’s Servus TV, and Bedrock Streaming (M6+).
PlayAnywhere.com – interactive rights and monetization for major rights owners such as La Liga.
Katchdata.com – genomic metadata built with human intelligence & scaled with AI to enable data science using content graphs.
PA Metadata (part of PA Media) – UK focused metadata specialists for over 30 years.
Simon spent 7 years as Managing Director at Gracenote/Nielsen managing a team selling multi million-dollar metadata deals to clients likes Samsung, LG, Sky & Liberty Global.
Simon led Bloomberg Sports Europe executive producing a football show for Bloomberg TV along side his business development role.
For 10 years Simon worked in the betting industry including as CEO of Betfair TV where he won innovation awards for the world’s first betting app on CTV in 2008.
Simon’s first roles after graduating were in advertising with JWT and then Publicis.