James Filleul

Trustee

James is an experienced board member, former media CEO & editor and communications professional. By professional training, he is a broadcast journalist, starting as a news trainee at the BBC, and then progressing to running the radio newsroom in Jersey. He left to start his own PR & communications agency, focussing initially on media relations and training. James then co-founded and edited Bailiwick Express in Jersey and Guernsey - the first new daily news platform in the islands since the early 1990s - and Connect Magazine, followed by Bailiwick Radio and Bailiwick Podcasts. That led to a merger with the JEP, and becoming CEO of the combined All Island Media group, where his remit was to deliver the overall growth strategy for the business, and work with colleagues to achieve digital change, modernisation and expansion – during that period, he also held the role of Editor of the JEP. He is a past-President of the Jersey Chamber of Commerce, and one of the founding non-executive directors of Jersey Business Ltd. James also sat on the Government's disability steering group.