| Name: | Richard Gwynn |
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| Current Position: | Director | |
| Current Organisation: | Dowcarter Ltd |
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| Previous Position: | Managing Director | |
| Previous Organisation: | GBnet Ltd | |
| Previous Position: | Sales & Marketing Director | |
| Previous Organisation: | ViewInn plc | |
| Previous Position: | Leisure Services Director | |
| Previous Organisation: | New Prestel Ltd | |
| Background: | I've been continuously involved in online publishing since 1979 when I was the senior journalist the world's first public 24-hour
online sports service run by news agency Extel on BT's pioneering Prestel viewdata network. 1981: founded Gwynn Williams Viewdata which provided travel, sport, entertainment, financial and IT viewdatabases for over a thousand companies until 2002. 1994: became a founding director and shareholder in New Prestel which bought Prestel from BT. 1995: founded GBnet which designed and managed websites for travel, financial and manufacturing companies until being sold to Dowcarter in 2003. 1995: founding director and shareholder in ViewInn plc which became the first Internet company listed on the London Stock Exchange and pioneered Internet access in hotel rooms through an adapter and remote keyboard connected to the TV screen. 1996: ViewInn launched their service in Mayfair's Chesterfield Hotel, which became the world's first hotel to provide access to the web and email in all guest rooms. 2003: Sold GBnet to London and Edinburgh-based online marketing company Dowcarter, whom I joined as Travel Services Director |
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| Current: | Responblbe for developing Dowcarter's portfolio of travel clients. During the last 18 months we have designed and developed
websites and online emaketing initiativs for several First Choice brands, including Meon Villas, for Cox & Kings, Longshot Golf Holidays and Travelsmith, all of whom have doubled the number of online booking received within a month of relaunch. |
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