1. Roger George Parry was born on 1953 and is a media and technology entrepreneur based in Canada and the UK.
20 Facts About Roger Parry
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Roger Parry was chairman of a number of companies quoted on the London Stock Exchange including Future plc, Johnston Press plc, Oxford Metrics plc and YouGov plc.
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Roger Parry is the co-founder of the international marketing communications group MSQ Partners and of the television drama production company Chrysalis Vision.
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Roger Parry is the author of six books and writes extensively on the media and associated topics.
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Roger Parry was chairman of the trustees of Shakespeare's Globe theatre for eight years.
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Roger Parry was a non-executive member of the UK board of directors of Uber.
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Roger Parry worked on the Today programme on BBC Radio 4, BBC News and Thames News.
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Roger Parry was there at the same time as Adair Turner, Howard Davies and Archie Norman.
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In 1998 Roger Parry was one of the founding directors of Clear Media which has become one of China's leading outdoor advertising companies.
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In 2007 Roger Parry become Executive Chairman of international marketing communications group Media Square plc which he subsequently took private in a management buy-out in 2011 to create an employee owned business called MSQ Partners.
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Roger Parry was appointed as non-executive director of Uber on 6 April 2018.
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In both 2011 and 2012 Roger Parry was the Chairman of the Global Festival of Media held in Montreux.
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Roger Parry was twice forced by the UK Takeover Panel to deny rumours that he was about to bid for ITV.
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Between 2000 and 2005, he was frequently mentioned as a possible bidder for the radio station Capital 95.8 and in 2003 the CEO of Capital said that if Roger Parry did make an offer it would be rejected out of hand.
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Roger Parry was highly critical of the Hartlepool Mail editor in a speech he gave to the Johnston Press Editors' conference.
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Mandelson, Blair and Roger Parry had been contemporaries at Oxford University in the late 1970s.
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In 2003 as the largest private shareholder in the radio station 102.2 Jazz FM Roger Parry held the casting votes in a hostile take-over by the Guardian Media Group which was opposed by the Jazz FM management.
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Roger Parry voted for the sale and was criticised by the Jazz FM CEO.
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Also that year Roger Parry was a member of a consortium including Jocelyn Stevens and Tina Brown which attempted, but failed, to win the franchise for the London radio station LBC.
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Roger Parry was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2014 New Year Honours for services to media and the arts, particularly the Globe Theatre.