Prior to founding Samphire Films, I was a commissioning editor in the BBC’s documentary department where I was responsible for some of the broadcaster’s most successful and innovative recent series, box-sets and single films. I led a push into the premium documentary space, commissioning high-profile hits including the critically acclaimed Lucan and Hunting Mr Nice. I looked after some of the BBC’s biggest observational documentary brands such as the BAFTA-winning Ambulance and Murder Trial, as well as innovative, genre bending doc series like the award winning High: Surviving a Dubai Drugs Bust and Gaia: A Death on Dancing Ledge, and a new, yet-to-be-announced factual format. 

Before the BBC, I worked for nearly a decade at one of the UK’s most successful unscripted production companies, Blast Films. As creative director I oversaw the company’s highest profile programming, including the BAFTA-winning Liverpool Narcos (Sky Documentaries), High: Confessions of an Ibiza Drug Mule (BBC and Netflix), Missing: Dead or Alive (Netflix), Grierson award winning, 999: What’s Your Emergency? and Skint Britain (C4), RTS award winning Forensics: The Real CSI, Reported Missing, Generation Gifted, and Saving Lives at Sea (BBC).  Earlier in my career I worked on seminal factual formats including The Choir and Bad Lad’s Army. 

I’m passionate about creative innovation and excellence, love the art of storytelling, and remain as excited as I was when I first started out in TV by its power, as a truly broad medium, to connect people from right around the world with stories that matter and content that entertains.