Richard Davidson-Houston made head of Channel 4 online

Richard Davidson-Houston , credited with much of the success of Channel 4 's web strategy, has been announced as the channel's first head of online. Davidson-Houston joined Channel 4 in 2007 as head of online products and has concentrated on transforming what one colleague described as "a scrab bag" of different sites into a coherent and high quality editorial and commercial product, largely through the relaunch of the site last year. He now has responsibility for all Channel 4's online offerings, overseeing cross-platform commissioning, 4ip, education and the Online Products division. In a statement, he pointed to the success of online commissions Battlefront , 1066 and Such Tweet Sorrow and said he "wanted the team to work together more effectively in order that we can have even greater impact". Before Channel 4, Davidson-Houston spent five years at Microsoft, laterly as business manager at MSN/Windows Live. Photo by kyz on Flickr. Some rights reserved