networking in a digital generation

Gavin Starks BSc MMus FRSA

Gavin has been combining Technology, Science, Media and Business for more than a decade.

He pioneered streaming media in the UK and Europe in 1995 when he helped set up Richard Branson's "Virgin Net" ISP, and the International Webcasting Association in Europe. In 1999 he created the award-winning cross-media company, Tornado Productions, and sold it to a larger media group in 2003. He then led Consolidated Independent to a market-leading position in digital distribution.

Having led projects with clients as diverse as Channel Four, Rolls Royce, Tate Modern, Shell and Christian Aid he has broad and deep knowledge of how worlds collide.

Gavin holds a BSc in Astronomy and a Masters degree in Computer-Music: he worked at the Jodrell Bank Radio Observatory in Radio Astrophysics, and created and lectured new IEEE courses in Electronics and Music at Glasgow University. His music is regularly performed and his research published internationally. He contributes to the AmbientTV collective, the Acoustic Space Lab in Latvia, and Nesta/PAL workshops - exploring links between technology, science and the arts.

Gavin is Founding Director and CEO of AMEE, d::gen network and exequo, and Non-exec Director of DCDC.

If you are looking links to d::gen's commercial work, please go to http://www.dgen.net/w/

If you are looking links to music performances, please go to http://www.dgen.net/music/