Mary Keane-Dawson – Non-Executive Director
Starting out as one of the first employees of Redwood Publishing, Mary has over 20 years experience in C-suite business development, media and advertising, fifteen at board level.
In 1998 she and her then business partner sold Spafax, the worlds leading IFE business, to WPP Group PLC, where she subsequently held a global MD role (New York based). Mary became CEO of technology and media business Digital Streams in 2005, spending the next two years in Shanghai and Bejiing, where she was part of a team that raised $100 million of investment for a digital signage start-up. On returning from China, Mary started her business development consultancy, and in 2008 became interim MD of Steak, leaving in June 2009.
She now specialises as a board advisor and business development consultant, utilising her change management expertise, business innovation process knowledge and organisational and personal development programme design for companies and managers, primarily in the digital space. Mary is studying for a Masters in Management at Birkbeck College and LSE.