Jonathan Moules
Enterprise Correspondent, Financial Times
Jonathan Moules has been writing about UK business life for the Financial Times since
October 2003. He has interviewed a number of high profile established entrepreneurs,
including Sir Richard Branson and Larry Ellison, and personalities from the new
generation of entrepreneurial talent, such as Mind Candy's Michael Acton Smith and
Wonga's Errol Damelin. He writes about the challenges of building fast growing
companies, the growth of start-up communities in places like Shoreditch, East London,
as well as covering the exploits of privately held businesses for the Financial Times.
Before this he spent five years in the FT’s New York office, where he held a number of
positions, including technology, media and telecoms news editor. He covered the 1990s
dotcom bubble and the aftermath when it went pop, most notably the collapse of
Worldcom, the US telecoms group. Jonathan also helped cover the 9/11 terrorist attacks
which he witnessed first hand in Manhattan.
Earlier in his career, Jonathan was a senior technology writer at the Economist Group
and one of original team of journalists at the Sunday Business newspaper. He was lucky
enough in the early 1990s to have joined Computing, the IT industry’s trade magazine,
just as the worldwide web came on the scene. He subsequently considered became an
expert in the internet by dint of knowing just a little bit more about the subject than
everybody else. He has been a bit of a gadget geek ever since.
Jonathan graduated from Liverpool University with a degree in economics and worked for
local papers, such as the Cambridge Evening News, before moving to the business press
in London.
Born on May 10, 1970, he is married with three children, one of whom he delivered
himself.
Jonathan is also author of The Rebel Entrepreneur.