Mark Beilby

Having gained a First Class Honours BA degree in Modern History and an M Litt at Oriel College, Oxford University, Mark Beilby taught Modern History at Balliol and Oriel Colleges, Oxford University.

Between 1982 and 1985 he worked as a researcher, writer, and executive producer for White City Films (a BBC subsidiary), Video Arts (which was Sir Antony Jay and John Cleese's production company) and the American Program Bureau in Boston.

He began his financial career as a Corporate Finance analyst at Morgan Stanley, before becoming a media equity analyst conducting research into the media industry and giving investment advice. He was rated the number 1 European Media Analyst for 9 years by Institutional Investor magazine and Reuters surveys.  After 6 years at UBS and 8 years at Deutsche Bank he joined JP Morgan as Managing Director for European Media in 2003.

In January 2006 he joined Dresdner Kleinwort as Capital Markets Managing Director and head of the European media team.

Mark is the co-founder of new media technology company Apollo Media.  He is visiting Fellow in Film Finance at The Cass Business School in the City University of London, a Board Director of leading business publishing group Cavendish International and served on the UK Government Committee in 2006 that reviewed the BBC's licence fee.