Jamie Labate is the digital director for Quartz EMEA, with over 16 years of print and online media experience spanning the automotive, current affairs, technology and consumer markets.

He joined Dennis Publishing Ltd in 1998 as part of the initial team that launched the ad sales effort of The Week magazine. In 2004, as Advertisement Director, he left to head up the display effort at New Scientist across print and online platforms both in the UK and the US. He returned to Dennis as Online Trading Director in 2008 and spent 3 years running ad sales for the various 20 websites and growing digital magazine portfolio. The following 2 years resulted in his promotion to Deputy Managing Director of Advertising – having added managing the creative production team and licensing/syndication revenue efforts to his existing cross-platform remit.

Jamie spends his spare time with his family and harbours dreams of opening his own BBQ restaurant one day.