User:Iolojones

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Iolo Jones has wide ranging experience of the advertising, television, IT, internet and new media markets and is widely regarded as one of the leading pioneers of the multimedia, internet technology and internet television industries in the UK.

He has strong technical and marketing skills and has built three successful multi-million pound companies from scratch, selling two companies and taking the third public. He is particularly strong in contributing constructive and innovative ideas to help companies grow rapidly.

As founder and CEO of Narrowstep Inc he architected telvOS, the leading internet tv platform. He built the company from scratch and took it public onto the tightly regulated the US markets in September 2005. The company has grown revenues more than 100% every year from inception and major clients include corporations such as Ford and Unilever, leading broadcasters such as ITV and Virgin Media and telcos such as Telefonica, all of whom have used Narrowstep to implement their internet TV strategies.

Iolo has been recently consulted with Ofcom, contributes to a wide range of publications and regularly speaks at major industry events all over the world. He regularly provides advice to investment funds and private equity firms in the UK and Europe. His blog, IPTV Times is also highly popular in the industry.

Before founding Narrowstep, Iolo was the founder and CEO of Interactive1, one of the leading development companies in the internet era, developing complex web-based applications and services for a blue chip customer base. At Interactive1, Iolo established and managed offshore development bases in Asia and Europe as well as sales and development offices in Europe and the US and grew the company revenues at over 100% per annum.

After graduating with joint honours degrees in Radio, Film & Television and Educational Broadcasting from the University of Kent at Canterbury, Iolo started his career in film special effects, working with leading effects company, Camera Effects as a Special Effects Film Editor, before becoming a cameraman at LWT.

Subsequently he moved into the marketing industry, working for a number of leading advertising and marketing companies, including Paragon Communications and Ogilvy & Mather.

In 1991 Iolo founded a pioneering multimedia company, Sutton Jones, which was sold to what is now WPP plc in 1994 before going on to establish Interactive1.