In 1993 Ben was appointed Editor of the young person’s section of The Guardian newspaper. In 1994 he joined Wall to Wall Television.
In 1997 Ben became Head of Development at Optomen and won commissions for both UK and US networks, including the The Naked Chef.
In 1999 Ben joined Endemol working on Pet Rescue and producing the first UK series of Big Brother. He then went to Two Four and series produced Channel 4’s Royal Horticultural Society Chelsea Flower Show – five hours of live coverage with a production team of over one hundred.
In 2001 he joined Channel 4 as a commissioning editor in the Daytime department, launching the flagship live daily talk show Richard & Judy and overseeing and commissioning daytime output. He devised and launched a new daytime schedule – the biggest change in daytime for twenty years. Ben oversaw new and ongoing primetime and daytime series including factual entertainment reality soap The Salon, foreign property show A Place in the Sun and makeover series The City Gardener (his last act at the Channel was to commission You Are What You Eat).
At the end of 2003 Ben left Channel 4 and returned to Optomen to run the company’s US operation from their New York office as Senior Vice President, Programming & Development.
In the spring of 2004 Ben returned to Optomen’s London office to become Director of Group Development.
Ben is 6’ 7” and claims to be the tallest man in television.