David spent around 10 years in traditional business directory firms (Thomson, Scoot, BT) before joining a file sharing startup in 2006 which provided the bridge from traditional publishing to the peer-produced model.

In 1996 he led the development and launch of a mass market e-commerce solution for SMEs at the directory company Scoot, and went on to head up all product management for an international e-procurement company during the early 00s.  He’s consulted on digital asset management products at Sony and on strategies for monetizing BT’s online
directory enquiries service on BT.com.

In 2005 he joined a file sharing start-up to head up product strategy and saw that grow from 3 people to a team of over 30 on both sides of the Atlantic, before starting www.brownbook.net with Marc Lyne in2008.

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Andrew Burke is CEO of Amino Technologies Plc which specialises in digital entertainment solutions for IPTV, Internet TV and in-home multimedia distribution.  He has overseen the acquisitions of AssetHouse, digital proposition management experts, and Tilgin’s IPTV set-top box division. Andrew is Chairman of Crisp Thinking and a non-executive director at the IT Forum Foundation. Previously, he was CEO BT Entertainment where he devised and ran the company’s IPTV initiative (BT Vision), chaired their Premium Rate Services activity, pioneered their Digital Media Services and led BT’s relationships with the media world.  Prior to that, Andrew was Director Online Services and responsible for all value-added services developed to complement Broadband in the UK. Before BT, Andrew was founder & CEO of eVerger, an eMarketing focussed venture fund created in 2000 by Aegis Group, and Warburg Pincus, which together committed $100m to the venture.  Previously, Andrew was COO of eVentures, the Internet incubator owned by News Corporation and Softbank, founder and CEO of LineOne, the Internet service provider now known as Tiscali UK, and established News International’s initial Internet presence back in 1994.

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