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Spinview Global Appoints New Chairman for Growth Geoff Sutton, ex General Manager of International Media Publishing Group at Microsoft, has joined leading virtual reality company Spinview Global as Chairman. The experienced digital industry executive and pioneer of cutting edge technologies, joins Linda Wade, CEO, Zoran Grahovac, Business Development and Zeljko Radosevic, Head of Technology and Software Services, together with an experienced management team, to focus on growth of the Spinview business in the UK, Nordics and overseas. Following an early career as a
Geoff Sutton: Spinview's Chairman
senior Fleet Street journalist at newspapers including the Daily Mail, Daily Mirror and Today, Sutton went on to launch the UK’s first online-only news site MSN News. His subsequent
position as a senior leader at Microsoft through the growth of the internet-era, saw him run MSN, Hotmail, Messenger, Search and online services across UK, EMEA and latterly all international markets outside of the US. Geoff said: “ I believe there is a huge opportunity here to build a big, profitable and groundbreaking business in the innovative VR space. Spinview are 'making VR simple' and I believe we can become the platform that is required by many businesses to host and develop their VR content experiences.”
Across the Divide Celebrates 20th Year Anniversary Leading UK expedition and logistics company Across the Divide, which has organised expeditions around the world and provided logistics and planning support to charities and corporates raising £92million for charity, celebrates its 20th anniversary. In that time, Across the Divide has provided medical support for CBS TV's Survivor Series and helped Helen Skelton run and kayak for Comic Relief. It helped Ben Fogle and James Cracknell ride from Edinburgh to
London, and even Sir David
Mark Hannaford: Founder, Across the Divide
Attenborough has reached out for the firm’s expert support. It has also helped the BBC’s Children in Need Rickshaw
Challenge team to raise more than £1 4million over the past five years. Across the Divide was the first company to provide salaried medical staff on all of its international expeditions and projects, and works with its sister company World Extreme Medicine to train medical professionals to apply their skills to extreme and austere environments, working on expeditions, with endurance athletes and in areas of conflict.
DocsCorp Expands London Office to Great Tower Street DocsCorp has relocated its London team to larger premises on Great Tower Street. Leading the EMEA team of sales, sales support and events personnel is Vice President of DocsCorp EMEA, Ben Mitchell. Commenting on the new
DocsCorp: premises on Great Tower Street
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move Mitchell said: “DocsCorp has posted strong consistent growth in Europe over the past five years. “It's all about efficiency. The majority of our clients are keen to become more efficient so they can transact more business in less time.” www.londonbusinessjournal.co.uk
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