My role at ITV is director of operations for legal and regulatory compliance. When we talk about compliance here at ITV we mean compliance for all laws, all regulations, but also codes of practices such as the code of practice of Ofcom or other regulators like PhonepayPlus or the Gambling Commission, so it's quite wide. So I look after the operational side of it which means I look at all the processed, also the systems we use to make sure we deliver compliance programmes.

My career path has been, first I came to this country about 16 years ago, I basically trained as a solicitor in the City at Freshfields, I spent quite a few years there, then I went to New York and did a course on the business of entertainment and when I came back I got the job of head of legal in a small production company and then after doing that I was head-hunted by ITV and I joined ITV about 6 years ago and I've been working here since then.

I'm a production executive at ITV, I work in the non-scripted department for ITV studios. I work with the entertainment development team which means that I budget their ideas once there's a spark of interest from somewhere I work with them to get together all of the figures, which is quite interesting because it's working on programmes that absolutely haven't been seen before, so I get first look at what we're up to which is great. I also work with the global entertainment formats consultant, assist her in getting the formats information out to the various companies that decide to make our formats, not just our own production companies but our formats get sold all over the world. We've also just sent somebody out to China a couple of times because there's a Chinese version of 'Surprise Surprise' which is in production at the moment. I came in on a three month contract and I've just enjoyed the people that I've worked with - it is the people that make the difference here.