Janice Hughes is currently a founder director of a new gigabit fibre network company, Graphite Strategy. She was MD of the Economists Advisory Group, managing an eminent group of academics including Sir Bryan Carsberg, who then moved to become the first Director General of Oftel, the precursor to Ofcom. She then became a specialist consultant to the telecoms and media sectors, first at CSP, then as lead Partner heading Booz Allen & Hamilton’s European Telecoms practice, before founding Spectrum Strategy Consultants. She played a leading role within the DCMS’s Creative Industries Taskforce alongside Paul Smith and Lord Puttnam, undertaking the first ever statistical review that demonstrated that the sector was worth more than £100bn, not far behind that of the financial services sector.