Justin Dewhirst is the Area Executive Producer for MSN in Central & Eastern Europe and Middle East & Africa.

Based in London, Justin leads a team of MSN Executive Producers and works with strategic partners such as Agora in Poland and Ringier in Hungary across 12 key markets where MSN delivers engaging portal propositions to over 40M online users.

He joined MSN UK in 2006 to help grow the UK portal and was the MSN EMEA Programming lead from 2009.

Before joining Microsoft, Justin spent several years in online media in several roles including Head of Content Business Development at AOL Europe, Consumer Marketing Director of Deutsche Telekom’s UK cable tv, telephony and web business and as Managing Director of Bright Blue he  launched an interactive TV channel on the Sky UK platform.

He also worked for 10 years at the BBC and their international arm BBC Worldwide, where he worked on international TV co-productions, helped launch the Home Entertainment business and developed joint ventures to launch many UK and international TV channels including UK Gold, UK Living and BBC Prime.“