BIOGRAPHY
Tanya Cordrey has 13 years' experience within digital businesses. She has worked for many successful dot coms, setting up the award-winning parenting site Babycentre.co.uk (the UK version of babycenter.com) before it was sold to Johnson & Johnson. After that she worked as eBay UK's Product Director for five years, during a period of exponential growth as the company became a household name. Prior to joining GNM, she was the UK General Manager of Webby-award winner zopa.com.
In 2008 she joined Guardian News and Media as General Manager, environment, building a portfolio of digital products and services around environment and sustainability, including the launch of environmentguardian.co.uk - now the UK's number one site in the green sector based on unique visitors.
Tanya has recently been appointed the Director of Digital Development and now oversees the newly formed digital development team, which is responsible for developing and launching a wide range of products including iPhone, Android and iPad apps, Kindle editions, as well as new features and digital projects within guardian.co.uk.
Tanya is also a Trustee for the online charity globalgiving.co.uk.
About Guardian News & Media
Guardian News & Media (GNM) publishes guardian.co.uk, one of the world's leading news websites, as well as guardiannews.com and the Guardian and Observer newspapers. GNM is the core business of Guardian Media Group (GMG), whose sole shareholder is The Scott Trust. The core purpose of The Scott Trust is to secure the financial and editorial independence of the Guardian in perpetuity.
Profits generated by GMG are reinvested to sustain journalism that is free from commercial or political interference. No individual can benefit financially from being a shareholder in The Scott Trust, making it a unique form of media ownership.
The original Scott Trust was formed in 1936, and reconstituted in 1948. In 2008 the trust was wound up and replaced with a limited company bearing the same name and with the same protections for the Guardian enshrined in its constitution.
