Having completed 15 years as CEO, Tim became Ocean Group Chairman in January 2025. Under his leadership, Ocean has become a global pioneer in creativity and technology.

As a champion, founder and original chair of Ocean’s Digital Creative Competition, Tim and the Ocean Group have created an innovative platform that’s produced and won multiple Cannes Lions. The business has consistently proved OOH effectiveness via multiple industry studies which have shaped the narrative around outdoor as a trusted media channel.

Tim specialises in media brand building and turnarounds, leading businesses through private equity, float, consolidation and exit. Building on a successful career in TV, radio and outdoor, as CEO he led Ocean through three phases of private equity investment, followed by three UK acquisitions and four acquisitions in the Nordics and the Netherlands, expanding Ocean into Northern Europe. Tim oversaw the company’s full LSE listing in January 2019 and steered the business successfully through the COVID pandemic period. In 2022, Ocean was taken private, becoming a partner company of Atairos, the independent strategic investment company.

A committed outdoor advertising evangelist, Tim continues to draw on the Ocean ethos as an advisor and business mentor. This work includes supporting multiple good causes and charitable campaigns via multi-million pound advertising funds and initiatives. Tim was a recipient of the International Leadership Award at the 2019 World OOH Congress.

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