James has worked in publishing for his entire career, falling into it via an Editorial Support role at Reed Business Information. This lead to an 11 year stint at Hearst Magazines (formerly the National Magazine Company) where he worked in the team that introduced DAM, workflow systems and in-house repro across 20 titles, and over the editorial, advertising and production teams that supported them.

He now works for Slimming World as their Publishing Systems Manager, looking at content production, storage and management across their Magazine, Design, Marketing and PR teams.