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Martin Higginson started his career as photo journalist at United Newspapers plc, a year later he acquired the BMX title he helped launch and took it to one of Britain’s biggest selling boys magazines before selling it to IPC Magazines at the age of 20. He spent two years as a publisher for IPC before leaving to establish his own publishing business, Lancastrian Holdings Limited. As this business grew it began to focus on interactive telephone competitions through its subsidiary Megafone. This business grew rapidly through its telephone scratchcard creation growing from a turnover of sub £1m to over £10m in only 3 years. On selling the business to Scottish Power plc, Martin became a senior executive within their subsidiary Scottish Telecom, now Thus plc, heading up their Internet and Interactive division which included preparing Demon Internet for the Thus plc £1bn plus flotation.
Upon leaving Thus plc he established Monstermob Limited in July 2000 to specialise in the delivery of content to mobile phone owners. The Monstermob Group floated on AIM in 2003. Today it operates in over 13 countries with a staff of over 1,000 employees. A majority interest in Monstermob plc was acquired by the Spanish company Zed in 2007 following a £32m cash share placement.
Martin was named North West Entrepreneur of the Year in 2002 and is a non-executive Chairman of Springdoo plc..
Martin is currently Chairman and CEO of Netplay TV, an interactive TV gaming business. Since taking control of the business in December 2006 he has grown turnover from £3.2m a month to over £19m per month.
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