Chris Gorell Barnes

Chris Gorell Barnes is an English digital entrepreneur and marine conservationist best known as executive producer of the award-winning documentary The End of the Line.

Career

Gorell Barnes founded a digital content agency called Adjust Your Set in 2008.[1][2][3] He was named by the London Evening Standard newspaper in 2013 as one of the most powerful 'Tech Stars' in the UK.[4] Adjust Your Set was named in New Media Age's Top 100 Interactive Agencies 2010 as 'one to watch'[5] and in 2011 it was named as a winner in the Brightcove Online Video Innovation Awards. Gorell Barnes has sat on the board of Eagle Eye Solutions, a digital consumerism business, since 2007.[6] Other board members include Sir Terry Leahy, former Tesco chief executive.[7]

Gorell Barnes was executive producer for The End of the Line, a documentary film that changed attitudes towards seafood, including among companies such as Pret A Manger and Marks & Spencer.[8][9][10] It won the inaugural Puma Creative Impact Award in 2011 for its success in changing consumer behaviour.[11][12]

A study by the BRITDOC Foundation found that it had been seen by more than one million people and had created press and media attention worth more than £4 million.[13] The film was described by the Chicago Tribune as "an apocalyptic documentary that is as beautiful as it is damning".[14]

Marine conservation

In 2009, Gorell Barnes and fellow producer George Duffield founded a marine conservation charity, the Blue Marine Foundation which aims to create marine reserves.[1][15][16][17] In 2010 it brokered a deal that created a huge marine reserve around the Chagos Islands[18] and two years later one that protected the waters around Turneffe Atoll in the Caribbean.[19] Among its supporters are Helena Bonham Carter.[20][21]

Personal life

Gorell Barnes grew up in London and studied at the European Business School.[2] He lives in London, with his long-term partner Martha Lane Fox, Baroness Lane-Fox of Soho, co-founder of lastminute.com.[22]

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