James Burgess

James Burgess founded Squadron Venture Media in 2013. He started his career as a media buyer in the early 90's at Carat before becoming part of the early team that turned PHD Media from a London agency with 20 people to a global agency with 2,500 employees in 70 countries. After a spell as Media Director at Saatchi & Saatchi in Asia, he joined BBDO in Sydney as Head Of Strategy. 

He returned to the UK to found The Klondike Agency in June 2000, the first of a new wave of media strategy specialists that sprung up around the millennium. It was one of the first agencies to integrate digital media thinking into traditional advertising planning. Clients included BSkyB, General Motors, Travelocity, Clarks Shoes and Coca Cola. In 2003, Klondike consulted on the launch of Sky Italia, Europe's biggest brand launch of that year. 

He left the agency he founded in 2006 to become part of the management team that launched Seatwave.com, attracting $50m in VC investment. The company gained rapid traction growing revenues from $0 to over $10m in little over 18 months as it expanded across Europe. The company was named number one at the top of the Guardian's Tech 100 list in 2009 and was acquired by Live Nation/Ticketmaster in 2014. 

Since leaving Seatwave, James launched eHarmony into the UK market, spent a year developing brand strategy and the first TV advertising for Zoopla, put MOO.COM onto TV in the UK and US and launched and sold an online fine wine discount site. He founded Squadron Venture Media in 2013 with a simple mission - to bring together the UK's dynamic tech scene and its vibrant media & creative communities to build some of the defining brands of the early 21st century.