Christopher Histed Explained

Christopher Histed (born 1964) is a British businessman and entrepreneur with a career in media, the Internet and consultancy.

Christopher Histed
Birth Place:Kent, England
Nationality:British
Occupation:Businessman, information technologist, entrepreneur

Born in 1964, he attained a Postgraduate Diploma in Journalism from City University, London and a BSc in Combined Studies at the University of Leicester, following his education at Eltham College.

Career

Public service for Parliament, City of London and pro-bono activity

Histed serves as Past Master[1] and is a liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists, the 100th livery company of the City of London which received a royal charter in June 2010; he was Master of the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists for the year 2016 – 2017.[2] He is a Freeman of the City of London, and a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Pewterers.

In addition to his business activities, he has been a member of the Parliamentary IT Committee (PITCOM).[3] His pro bono activities include providing guidance, consultancy and online services to charities and voluntary sector bodies. His pro-bono work has included projects for World Autism Awareness Day, the Royal Corps of Signals, Autistica, UK disability charity Radar[4] [5] Citizens Advice, the Parliamentary All Party Group on Autism, e-Skills UK, IT 4 Communities,[6] National Autistic Society & others.

Chris has been a Governor at Lilian Baylis Technology School[7] in Lambeth, Trustee at The Vision Charity, has served in the Territorial Army, and served as a board director at the Association of Business Communicators.

Business career

Histed is the co-founder of Publitas Consulting, which provides strategic advice and guidance to board and head-of-service level at local authorities, NHS, universities and central government.

The first decade of his career was spent running traditional media portfolios starting in 1986 at Centaur Media plc, followed by seven years at Emap Business Communications[8] [9] where he became a publishing director.

Internet ventures and interactive television were the theme for the second decade of Histed's career, and in 1997 he moved to become head of Aspen Interactive (part of Aspen Group plc) and was responsible for major interactive projects including e-ticketing for GNER.

Then, Histed became general manager of Sky Interactive Production at British Sky Broadcasting, with P/L responsibility for Sky's web businesses, directing the teams which developed SkySports Active and SkyNews Active, the world's first interactive TV services.

Following a period as vice president at FT.com[10] [11] he was appointed director of strategy and UK general manager at Silicon Media Group (Silicon.com)[12] [13] [14] [15] which was sold to NASDAQ-listed CNET Networks (now part of CBS) in 2002. Next, as chief operating officer, he assisted the sale of Parliamentary Communications Ltd to Huveaux plc.

In 2003 he founded Public Technology Ltd[16] [17] [18] and as CEO launched the Public Technology online information network (ten separate content driven online information sites including PublicTechnology.net).[19] [20]

In 2004 he founded and then ran the e-Government National Awards,[21] [22] the UK's public sector annual technology competition. This has been supported since inception by Cabinet Office ministers, the UK's government CIO, and has had prime ministerial input from Number 10 Downing Street and support from David Cameron,[23] Gordon Brown[24] & Tony Blair.[25]

In 2009 he sold Public Technology Ltd to Sift Media Ltd,.[26] [27] [28]

Publications

External links

Notes and References

  1. http://www.wcit.org.uk/staticc/court.html/ Worshipful Company of Information Technologists – list of Court members
  2. Book: Histed, Christopher . A Celebration of the Granting of the Royal Charter to The Information Technologists' Company. Worshipful Company of Information Technologists. 2010. 978-0-9566011-0-0.
  3. http://www.pitcom.org.uk/pitcom25web.pdf "PITCOM at 25, A short history of the Parliamentary Information Technology Committee"
  4. http://www.radar.org.uk/doingsenioritydifferently/dsdexecsum.pdf/ Doing seniority differently – A study of high fliers living with ill-health, injury or disability – Exec summary
  5. http://www.radar.org.uk/dsdfullrpt.pdf/ Doing seniority differently – A study of high fliers living with ill-health, injury or disability – Full report
  6. http://www.it4communities.org.uk/it4c/newsletterarchives/newsletter23/website.html "The New Web System"
  7. http://www.wcit.org.uk/user_assets/383.pdf "Lilian Baylis Technology School visits the ITC Hall"
  8. Histed, C.S. "Desktop video post-production: the reality of its use in the UK. An analysis of the expansion in use of desktop video post-production in the UK, across the broadcast and corporate video sectors ", International Broadcasting Convention, 1995. IBC 95., Page(s): 208 – 212, Publication Year: 1995 .
  9. . "Teesside VR centre forges business links", TES timeshighereducation.co.uk, 14 February 1997.
  10. BEN ROSIER "FT.com appoints former BSkyB general manager Christopher Histed as vice president", mediaweek.co.uk, London, 18 May 2000.
  11. . "FT.com appoints Histed", Campaign Magazine campaignlive.co.uk, 18 May 2000.
  12. . "Silicon.com appoints former FT.com vice president Christopher Histed as UK country general manager", New Media Age – nma.co.uk, London, 5 July 2001.
  13. . "Silicon.com hires UK country general manager", Marketing Magazine, 27 June 2001.
  14. . "Silicon confirms a raft of top changes", Media Week, London, 4 April 2002.
  15. http://www.ipsos-mori.com/researchpublications/researcharchive/poll.aspx?oItemId=1387 "Online Information Sources Replace Traditional Media "
  16. http://www.bipsolutions.com/docstore/pdf/12123.pdf "Cabinet Office e-Bulletin"
  17. http://www.ktpknowledge.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=529&Itemid=2 "Public sectors contracts available on free website "
  18. http://www.publictechnology.net/content/14/ About Public technology Limited & the Public Technology Information network
  19. http://www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/Download/9963 "Better Connected 2008"
  20. http://m.publicservice.co.uk/feature_story.asp?id=9148 "What others are predicting for council websites in 10 years' time "
  21. https://archive.today/20120919055132/http://www.politics.co.uk/news/2004-e-government-awards-launched-$28407.htm "2004 e-Government awards launched"
  22. Web site: Judges for the e-Government National Awards 2010 . 28 January 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110201144333/http://www.e-governmentawards.co.uk/judges . 1 February 2011 . dead .
  23. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIUKxaf1PdM/ Prime Minister David Cameron at the e-Government National Awards 2010
  24. https://www.flickr.com/photos/christopherhisted/4295032111/in/set-72157623137524967/ Prime Minister Gordon Brown at the e-Government National Awards 2009
  25. https://www.flickr.com/photos/christopherhisted/4295951948/in/set-72157623137886823/ Prime Minister Tony Blair at the e-Government National Awards 2005
  26. http://www.netimperative.com/news/2009/october/news-round-up-8th-october-2009 "Sift Media buys PublicTechnology.net"
  27. http://www.siftmedia.co.uk/news/sift-media-acquires-public-sector-publisher-public-technologynet/ Press release: Sift Media acquires public sector publisher PublicTechnology.net
  28. http://www.ukaop.org.uk/news/siftmediaacquirespublictechnology1621.html/ Sift-Public Technology acquisition

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