The final event of our 2008/9 Glasgow programme will focus on a highly ambitious new media company, and will address the challenges involved in growing an innovative and successful charitable organisation.

Spotlight TV

Spotlight Television specialises in Internet Protocol Television dedicated and tailored to individual businesses.  By having its own studio, editors, producers and presenters, Spotlight is in a position to produce engaging content to benefit any business.  Client channels are structured to deliver their aims and ambitions and offer a 24/7 broadcast route to market.

Being the official on-line TV partner for the Scottish Golf Union and clubgGolf Scotland, the company's reputation in internet sport broadcasting is growing. Fashion is the next aim and Spotlight has teamed up with Julie Hannah, celebrity stylist and Daily Record fashion expert, to produce “Julie’s fashion file”, in addition to launching its own Scottish Wedding Channel.

The UK market in general is quickly becoming aware of the Spotlight advantage, with a number of London firms ranging from solicitors through property and finance to call centres taking advantage of the company's online TV channels.

www.spotlighttv.tv

Guest Commentator

Dr John Rogers

John took up appointment as Director of Research and Knowledge Transfer at the University of Stirling in January 2006. Previously he worked at the University of Manchester, where he was involved in the 2004 merger between UMIST and the Victoria of Manchester.  At Manchester, John also had responsibility for student recruitment and admissions, international recruitment and relations, public relations and research and graduate support.  He was Head of the Research Office in the new University of Manchester prior to joining Stirling.

John was the manager of the national 2001 Research Assessment Exercise, working on behalf of the four UK higher education funding bodies, based at the Higher Education Funding Council for England in Bristol and London.  His earlier career was spent at the University of Aberdeen, in strategic planning, faculty management and student administration roles.

John has worked extensively on international higher education management and development projects, and is a regular conference and workshop presenter in the UK and overseas on research policy and management and wider higher education issues.

Street League

Street League transforms the lives of disadvantaged young people and adults in the UK using the power of sport. It achieves this through a structured football and education programme that helps to build confidence, improve health, extend social networks, and develop skills towards long-term education, employment and independence.  Street League has vast experience of using sport to engage and motivate the most hard-to-reach people in our society to move them towards positive lifestyles and long-term career opportunities.

The organisation currently works in London, Glasgow and Newcastle, with more than 1000 people taking part in its programme each year.  Street League is committed to furthering the use of sport and football as a tool for social improvement on a global level, and in the coming years aims to set up new projects in other cities so that more people and communities can benefit.

www.streetleague.co.uk

Guest Commentator

Stephen Halpin

Founder and Managing Director, Merchant Soul.

 Stephen is a marketing professional with almost 20 years experience in the industry on client and agency side, working both at a strategic and delivery levels.

 He founded one of Scotland’s most successful design agencies in 1997 and was the driving force in its growth and development until the beginning of 2009 when he exited the business at to embark on a new (ad) venture with his new marketing and creative agency, Merchant Soul.

Stephen has a strong track record in the marketing of higher education institutions, sports related brands and leisure brands/businesses and has been most successful when increasing brand value is the name of the game – often in the lead up to selling the brand/business.

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