Publisher of MobiAd News; Lab Partner/Cool Hunter for Ogilvy Digital Innovation Labs; Curator of TEDxSilkRoad Istanbul (London)

Ferhan Cook is the Co-founder and President of London based Any Screen Productions Ltd. She has 25 years of experience in multimedia, electronic publishing, interactive content and mobile entertainment.

Any Screen is an angel investor and an international business development partner to mobile technology companies. Any Screen also publishes MobiAd News, a popular Internet newsletter and website, with 60,000 monthly readers.Cook kicked off her career as the first international multimedia evangelist and (Newton) tablet publishing director at Apple Computer, where she worked for 11 years, in California and in Paris between 1983 and 1994. After Apple, she worked at Razorfish, a leading digital agency, as Vice President of Interactive Television & Broadband. 

Since 2003, Cook has been a strategic consultant as well as a designer and executive producer of cutting-edge digital events for the last 10 years, especially growing the MIPTV Digital Conferences, Mobile TV Awards, Content 360 Festival, in Cannes, France since 2000. She also programmed the PICNIC 09 Creative Festival in Amsterdam, and has been serving on international content juries such as the Interactive Emmys, Korean GMCA awards, and Mobile Entertainment Awards (MEFFYs) since 2003.

Cook is currently working on building digital creative and technical collaboration opportunities between Asia and Europe. She is the curator and programmer of a TEDx event to be launched in Istanbul in 2012, called TedxSilkRoad”, with the theme of Collaborative Creativity & Commerce, exploring the cultural, societal and global economic impact of mobile internet and the cross border collaboration and commerce that it enables.