Alex Co-founded Ten Alps in 1999 with Bob Geldof, and listed it in 2001 on AiM, after a TV and Radio production background at BBC, Granada and Planet 24.  

Ten Alps has made 20 acquisitions and is now a leading independent factual media producer of high-quality TV, online TV and B2B content.  

Companies within Ten Alps include production companies Brook Lapping, Films of Record and Blakeway, which between them make broad, agenda-setting, documentary output for BBC, Channel 4 and many other broadcasters, as well as globally-recognised online education channel Teachers TV.  

Ten Alps also publishes around 700 trade titles, making it a market leader in multi-platform B2B and public sector contract publishing. The ground-breaking corporate responsibility content production company DBDA, and online corporate video producer Twenty First Century Media, are amongst other communications businesses. 

Alex has been shortlisted several times as Entrepreneur of the Year.  He is currently Entrepreneur in Residence at INSEAD (Fontainebleau), Governor of Manchester Metropolitan University, Advisory Board member of Salford University Media School and a NESTA mentor to startup media companies working with RoughcutTV, a comedy producer. He is also blogging on entrepreneurship for Grant Thornton. 

Alex has a BA from St John's College, Oxford in Politics and Economics, Master's in Journalism from Columbia University (New York), and MBA from INSEAD.

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