Chris Gorell Barnes
Chris Gorell Barnes is an English digital entrepreneur and marine conservationist best known as executive producer of the award-winning documentary The End of the Line.
Career
Gorell Barnes founded a digital content agency called Adjust Your Set in 2008.[1][2][3] He was named by the London Evening Standard newspaper in 2013 as one of the most powerful 'Tech Stars' in the UK.[4] Adjust Your Set was named in New Media Age's Top 100 Interactive Agencies 2010 as 'one to watch'[5] and in 2011 it was named as a winner in the Brightcove Online Video Innovation Awards. Gorell Barnes has sat on the board of Eagle Eye Solutions, a digital consumerism business, since 2007.[6] Other board members include Sir Terry Leahy, former Tesco Chief Executive.[7]
Gorell Barnes was executive producer for The End of the Line, a documentary film that changed attitudes towards seafood, including among companies such as Pret a Manger and Marks & Spencer.[8][9][10] It won the inaugural Puma Creative Impact Award in 2011 for its success in changing consumer behaviour.[11][12] A study by the BRITDOC Foundation found that it had been seen by more than 1 million people and had created press and media attention worth more than £4 million.[13] The film was described by the Chicago Tribune as "an apocalyptic documentary that is as beautiful as it is damning".[14]
Marine Conservation
In 2009, Gorell Barnes and fellow producer George Duffield founded a marine conservation charity, the Blue Marine Foundation which aims to create marine reserves.[1][15][16][17] In 2010 it brokered a deal that created a huge marine reserve around the Chagos Islands[18] and two years later one that protected the waters around Turneffe Atoll in the Caribbean.[19] Among its supporters are Helena Bonham Carter.[20][21]
Personal life
Gorell Barnes grew up in London and studied at the European Business School.[2] He lives in London, with his long-term partner Martha Lane Fox, Baroness Lane-Fox of Soho and co-founder of lastminute.com.[22]
References
- 1 2 Article in The Sunday Times
- 1 2 Article in Evening Standard
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- ↑ Article in Evening Standard
- ↑ Article in New Media Age
- ↑ London Stock Exchange site
- ↑ Article in Daily Telegraph
- ↑ Article in Daily Mail
- ↑ Article in The Guardian
- ↑ Article in London Evening Standard
- ↑ Press release on Puma site
- ↑ Article on Screen Daily website
- ↑ The BRITDOC study document
- ↑ Article in Chicago Tribune
- ↑ Article in Superyacht Times
- ↑ Blue Marine Foundation website
- ↑ Article in The Tatler
- ↑ Article in The Independent
- ↑ Artucle in The Sunday Times
- ↑ Article in Daily Telegraph
- ↑ Article in New York Daily News
- ↑ Article in Daily Mail