CTAM Europe

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Presenters

Chris Bunyan
Director of Portal Management – Virgin Media

Chris Bunyan is Director of Portal Management at Virgin Media, the UK's leading supplier of broadband, TV, mobile and fixed line phone services. Chris is responsible for all aspects of Virgin Media's portal and online services, including editorial, commercial, applications, advertising, product development and P&L of what is now a multi-million pound online business.

Many recent initiatives include a strong cross-platform dynamic, linking together TV, broadband, and mobile. Currently, Chris and his team are launching a new fan-based sports service to augment the recently acquired FA Premiership football broadband rights. Virginmedia.com is a leading UK website, attracting more than 12 million users a month.

Previously, Chris was Director of Internet Product Management at ntl, the UK's largest provider of broadband services at the time. Chris helped grow the broadband access base from 500,000 to almost two million broadband customers in an intensely competitive market. During this time, he introduced a range of Internet services including a new portal, new email services, value-added security services—and was the first to package premium content, including music services, with broadband access.

Prior to that, Chris was Sales and Marketing Director, and then Publishing Director, at Television Education Network, an independent producer of television and multimedia services outputting approximately 300 programs a year.