May 16 2011
Fru Hazlitt
ITV’s Managing Director of Commercial & Online, Former Chief Executive of Gcap & Virgin Radio
Fru Hazlitt’s is recognised as one of the most high profile business leaders working in Britain today. Her role at ITV brings together its online and TV sales businesses. The former Chief Executive of Fruxx Ltd., Virgin Radio and chief executive of the radio group Gcap, the largest commercial radio company in the UK embracing Capital and Choice FM, she is a firm believer that creativity and programming should lead, with sales and marketing supporting a radio station’s output. She has over two decades of sales and marketing experience within the media sector across Magazines, Newspapers and Radio most notably at the Guardian Media Group and Capital Radio. She is a member of the Government’s Digital Inclusion Panel and was named by the CBI as UK’s First Woman of Media.
“Fru made us howl with laughter, wince in empathy & think very hard about the future” East Midlands Chamber of Commerce
Prior to joining Virgin Radio she was Managing Director of Yahoo! UK & Ireland since 2003. She joined Yahoo! in 2000 and by the time she became Managing Director of Yahoo UK and Ireland she had built a clear vision of the future of interactive technology, the opportunity it presents, the creativity it can inspire and the need to listen to a generation who have grown up with the Web. She spent two years as CEO of Virgin Radio, where she was credited with delivering the strategy for multi platform distribution for all Virgin stations.[/expand]
Fru has a clear vision of the future of interactive technology, the opportunity it presents, the creativity it can inspire and the need to listen to a generation who have grown up with the web. She draws on her comprehensive background in media sales and marketing to offer audiences insights into leadership in challenging conditions, speaking on the media industry and future directions for technology. Fru is a non executive board director of Betfair and with her background in general management, her proven commercial skills and her online experience with Yahoo, this makes her the ideal speaker at business forums and seminars.[/expand]
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Topics
Social and Business Networking
IT & Online Business
The UK Radio Industry
Marketing, Branding and Positioning
Marketing and the Media
Marketing and the Internet
Leadership Issues
Successful Marketing Strategies
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