Alan has had a successful career as a dynamic and creative leader in award-winning television production and business management. He has excellent links within the UK and international media industry and with business and policy makers across Scotland and the UK.
He grew the Wark Clements business from start up to a £10m turnover and then negotiated the merger with Ideal World to create IWC Media, Scotland’s largest independent producer. From 2008 to 2018, Alan was Director of Content at STV Productions and was instrumental in its growth and diversification into new genres and broadcasters.
Under his leadership, the business secured the long-running Antiques Road Trip for BBC1, and it celebrity spin-off for BBC2, Catchphrase for ITV, Safeword for ITV2 and MTV in the US, Prison: First & Last 24 Hours for Sky One, the last series of Taggart and major new drama The Victim which will play on BBC1 early in 2019.
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