George Walkley

Chair & NED | Expert on AI in Publishing & Media

📍 United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 2 investments📅 16 years investing🗓 Last invested Jul 2020
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Investor and Advisor
Jul 2020
At xigxag, we're leading the biggest-ever innovation in digital reading and shaping the future of books - to make reading more accessible, more engaging, easier, and more sustainable. We’ve built the most advanced digital reading app in the market, with a proprietary listen-and-read x-book® concept and market-first features for audiobooks.
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2025
Non Executive Director
Jan 2025
Customer focused publisher delivering high quality agricultural science content in print and online formats for the academic and research communities.
2022
Associate Lecturer, Bristol Business School
Jul 2022
The University of the West of England (UWE Bristol) is a modern university in the thriving city of Bristol. UWE Bristol is one of Britains most popular universities, with more than 30,000 students and 3,000 staff and is the largest provider of higher education in the south west of England. Students come to UWE Bristol from all parts of the UK, as well as a significant and growing number of international students from over 140 countries worldwide.
2020
Investor and Advisor
Jul 2020
At xigxag, we're leading the biggest-ever innovation in digital reading and shaping the future of books - to make reading more accessible, more engaging, easier, and more sustainable. We’ve built the most advanced digital reading app in the market, with a proprietary listen-and-read x-book® concept and market-first features for audiobooks.
Founder and Principal
Jul 2020
Outside Context Ltd is a boutique consulting firm. We work mainly with clients in the creative, media and publishing sectors, helping them make sense of the changing media landscape and maximise digital opportunities. We also support professional services firms looking to work with media and publishing companies, or to use creative content as part of their operations.
2010
Board Member
Jun 2010
The UK book industry’s dedicated supply chain organisation. BIC is an independent organisation originally founded (in 1991) by the Publishers Association, Booksellers Association, the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals and the British Library. We are dedicated to promoting green supply chains and efficiency in all sectors of the book world through e-commerce and the application of best practice, standard processes and procedures. We have excellent relationships with all major standards bodies and work closely with BookNet Canada and the Book Industry Study Group in the US. We are co-founders of The International Green Book Supply Chain Alliance along with BISG and BookNetCanada. https://www.greenbookalliance.org BIC is a neutral body and as such unites all sectors of the publishing industry via its popular events, collaborations, projects, networking, training, and committee work. Whether a publisher, content creator, on-line retailer, "bricks & mortar"​ retailer, library supplier, printer, distributor, library (academic or public), wholesaler, digital partner, data aggregator, or any combination of these, BIC offers a "one stop shop"​ experience, impartial advice and support on anything and everything related to the supply chain (digital and/or physical).