Fiona is an award-winning senior media executive with over twenty-five years’ experience of UK production across the broadcasting, digital and commercial sectors, developing creative content for international entertainment and multi-national corporate clients. Fiona was the founding managing director of Mustard TV, the local TV station for Norwich from 2020 to March 2020.
She wrote the winning bid which secured the local TV operating licence from the regulator, Ofcom and was subsequently engaged by regional media publisher, Archant to build the online and broadcast station for the media group.
In the last 18 months she has been one of the principal architects of the Start&Grow e-learning platform which supports start-ups and entrepreneurs through the provision of video and multi-media tutorials. She developed the project from producing the initial feasibility and scoping document through to Directing and Producing the video and multi-media e-learning materials for this innovative platform.
She has also recently produced and directed a number of award-winning documentaries for BBC4, most notably ‘In Search of Arcadia’ which won the Best Factual Programme award in the Royal Television Society East Awards 2018.
Fiona studied Film and Photographic Arts at the Polytechnic of Central London, now the University of Westminster. She achieved early success in the commercials industry as a producer and established her first company in 2020, producing video content for big screens at live music events, both tours and festivals.
In 2020 she identified an opportunity to extend her company’s activities into the retail environment and founded The Cube Group of Companies which produced and distributed digital in-store audiovisual content for multi-national retail groups including Topshop and Topman, Burberry and Toni and Guy. She sold the business profitably to Immedia plc in 2020 and became Chief Operating Officer of the enlarged group.
Fiona is Vice President of the Norfolk Chamber of Commerce. She is Honorary Treasurer of RTS East (Royal Television Society) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. She lives in South Norfolk with her family.