Tom Bureau is Executive Chairman of Immediate Media Co and CEO of Burda International.

Tom has more than 25 years’ experience of running world-class digital content and cross-platform media companies. He was co-founder and CEO of Silicon Media Group in 1998, which was sold to CNET Networks, after which he ran CNET’s European business.

In 2008 Tom joined digital-media platform company Magicalia as CEO, working with Exponent Private Equity, and co-founded Immediate Media Co in November 2011, merging Magicalia with Origin Publishing and BBC Magazines.

Immediate, the special interest content and platform company, is home to some of the UK’s best- loved and market-leading brands, including Radio Times, BBC Good Food, BBC Gardeners’ World magazine and Nutracheck. Under Tom’s leadership Immediate has consistently grown reach and revenue, through digital innovation, organic growth and M&A activity, with a strategic focus on special interest markets.

In 2017 Tom oversaw Immediate's successful sale from Exponent Private Equity to the Hubert Burda Media Company. Under Burda’s ownership, Immediate has acquired BBC Good Food, Upper Street Events Ltd and River Street Events, adding a specialist interest live events portfolio to its fast- growing media business, and most recently Nutracheck, one of the biggest digital subscription apps in the UK. Immediate now engages over 60 million passionate consumers every month.

In 2021, Tom took up the roll of Executive Chairman of Immediate and was appointed CEO of BurdaInternational, the international arm of German based media and tech company Hubert Burda Media.

BurdaInternational, currently owns 250 media brands across 14 countries in Europe and Asia, with a focus on content-driven businesses, new technologies and e-commerce.

Tom is also Chairman of the Board of Frontline Group, the market leading magazine distribution group, and was Chairman of the PPA, between 2020-22, having been a member of the PPA Board and Executive Committee since 2012.