Jeff Zie

Digital Guy with scars and stripes

Location: North Holmwood, Surrey, United Kingdom (Redhill, United Kingdom)
Industry: Marketing and Advertising

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Jeff Zie's Overview

Current

Advisor at School for Creative Startups
GM, freeform.London & Head of Digital at freeform.London
Consultant, Digital Media, Operations, Analysis, Production & Strategy at Freelance

Advisor at Artquest

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Past

Advisor at Moviestorm Ltd
CEO at Moviestorm Ltd
Consulting Head of Online at Static 2358 Ltd

Consulting VP, Platform, Production & Design at t5m: the 5th medium
Director, Pogo Europe at Electronic Arts
Director, Creative Strategy/Channel Head at OpenTV
Head of Operations and Product Development - New Media at BSkyB
Creative Director, MSN UK at Microsoft
Founder/Exec Producer, Emap Consumer Online at Emap

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Education

ULC
Creighton

Recommendations

17 people have recommended Jeff

Connections

500+ connections

Websites

Over 20 years of experience in successful digital media in startup and corporate environments; holding senior strategy and management positions at Electronic Arts, BSkyB, Microsoft and Emap.

A digital veteran, Jeff has successfully run multi-million dollar P&Ls, built and managed teams across multiple territories within large corporates and start-up environments, and bridges between client-side and service-side industries. Moreover, Jeff's hands-on approach ensures that strategic and tactical activities are always coordinated. Career highlights include:

• Launching EA’s online casual games business, Pogo, in the UK, France and Germany.
• Heading and launching PlayJam, the world’s most successful interactive TV games channel
• Building/consolidating BSkyB’s combined interactive service division
• First Creative Directorship of MSN UK, establishing the first iteration of MSN
• Establishing and building EMAP’s consumer online business

Panellist/Speaker at various industry events, including BAFTA, GETIF, MIP, Milia, Museum of Television & Radio (LA), AFI, British Consulate.

Prior to the world going digital, Jeff was a Designer and Art Director at some of the world's leading consultancies and agencies.

Specialties

Analytical, entrepreneurial and creative. Building/managing great teams. Product Design & Direction, Business Development, P&L Responsibility, Analysis, Digital Marketing, SEO/SEM, Social Media exploitation, Business Planning & Strategy, Business Re-shaping, Accountability and Delivery.

Advisor

School for Creative Startups

Educational Institution; 11-50 employees; Professional Training & Coaching industry

May 2012 – Present (1 month) London, United Kingdom

School for Creative Startups is a social enterprise running a year-long programme designed to teach creative people how to build successful startups and live from their craft.

GM, freeform.London & Head of Digital

freeform.London

Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry

January 2012 – Present (5 months) London, United Kingdom

Heading up freeform's digital division, and keen to show what's possible.

Consultant, Digital Media, Operations, Analysis, Production & Strategy

Freelance

May 2010 – Present (2 years 1 month)

Assisting clients with due-diligence, business development, building and delivering business strategy and product development in all things digital.

Advisor

Artquest

Nonprofit; 1-10 employees; Arts and Crafts industry

January 2010 – Present (2 years 5 months)

Providing digital strategy advice to Artquest, key providers of advice and services to the arts and crafts community in London. Artquest is funded jointly by the visual arts department of the London office of Arts Council England and University of the Arts London.

Advisor

Moviestorm Ltd

Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Online Media industry

May 2010 – January 2011 (9 months)

Provided the Moviestorm management team and board with strategic and tactical advice.

CEO

Moviestorm Ltd

Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Online Media industry

December 2008 – May 2010 (1 year 6 months)

Led Moviestorm - the virtual movie-studio that allows anyone to create a movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWS7Vc3kxQ8

Brought in by the director-investors to create a clean, streamlined and scalable business, with a fund-raising of £1.2M in 2009, with follow-on funding in 2010.

Left the business in 2010 'on rails' whilst staying on in an advisory capacity.

Consulting Head of Online

Static 2358 Ltd

Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Entertainment industry

April 2008 – November 2008 (8 months)

Hired to devise and implement the integration of PlayJam's online presence with its iTV activities; developed the strategy, business/investment plan and launched the PlayJam.com beta site in compressed timescales and budgets.

Consulting VP, Platform, Production & Design

t5m: the 5th medium

Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry

August 2007 – March 2008 (8 months)

Platform and product development, content, production and design. Working with, and managing Microsoft Consulting Services and various suppliers to deliver an Enterprise-grade back-end and front-end to the business in a highly aggressive timeframe, whilst building an in-house design and production facility in a start-up environment.

Director, Pogo Europe

Electronic Arts

Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; ERTS; Computer Games industry

March 2006 – July 2007 (1 year 5 months)

P&L, strategy and implementation of EA's casual games service, Pogo, in Europe, launching Pogo in the UK, Germany & France, as well as research and analysis on MMOG/MSG opportunities.

Director, Creative Strategy/Channel Head

OpenTV

Public Company; 201-500 employees; OPTV; Computer Software industry

2001 – 2006 (5 years)

Launched and headed up PlayJam, the most distributed interactive TV games channel, acquired by OpenTV, where I became Director of Creative Strategy.

Head of Operations and Product Development - New Media

BSkyB

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; BSY; Broadcast Media industry

1999 – 2001 (2 years)

Developed and launched Sky's initial interactive TV offerings, Sky Sports Active, Sky News Active, then took Ops and PD responsibility for Sky's ISP offering, as well as Sky Text, and mobile offerings in the merged New Media division.

Creative Director, MSN UK

Microsoft

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry

1997 – 1999 (2 years)

Took MSN UK from walled-garden subscription service to open, web-based service.

Founder/Exec Producer, Emap Consumer Online

Emap

Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Publishing industry

1995 – 1997 (2 years)

Founded Emap's first consumer-targeted online business-unit, and built its first team to launch FHM, Q, Empire, Car, Motorcycle News, Max Power's first websites. Instrumental in brokering and executing one of the first 'big' online content deals with Compuserve.