Mediazoo Group appoints Chief Product Officer to lead AI growth
Mediazoo names John Gordon as Chief Product Officer as it accelerates its AI product strategy and scales Finer Vision, its new AI specialist business John brings military discipline, cyber security and enterprise engineering experience and deep AI learning expertise to the role The appointment signals Mediazoo’s commitment to building intelligent L&D products at the intersection of creativity and AI “John’s appointment is about scaling impact. Turning our AI capability into products that change how our clients learn, communicate and perform,” says Giles Smith, CEO at Mediazoo Group.
23/04.26 - London, UK: Mediazoo Group has appointed John Gordon as Chief Product Officer, as the company doubles down on its ambition to lead the market in AI-powered learning and communications.
In the newly created position, John will own Mediazoo’s product vision and AI roadmap, leading the development of tools, platforms and intelligent workflows that put Mediazoo at the forefront of how organisations learn, communicate and perform. Alongside bringing his cyber security expertise to the Group, he will also play a pivotal role in Finer Vision, its newly launched AI business.
Finer Vision works with enterprise L&D teams to build practical AI skills across the full programme lifecycle, from needs analysis through to programme marketing, helping in-house teams use AI confidently in their day-to-day work. It joins Mediazoo (BAFTA-nominated, with 180+ client case studies) and Uncertainty Experts (whose Fear/Fog/Stasis research has been UCL-validated on 20,000+ participants) under the Group.
The appointment signals Mediazoo’s commitment to scaling the impact of AI across its learning and communications products.
Giles Smith, CEO of Mediazoo Group, said: “We spent two years transforming how our own teams work with AI before we offered this to anyone else. We built the skills, deployed them across our workforce, and measured every result.
John brings the product rigour and the technical depth to take that further. His appointment is central to where Mediazoo is going.”
John provides a rare depth of experience to the role, from military service and air traffic control through to Lead Software Engineer positions at Atos and Capgemini where is gained deep expertise in the cyber security space, and most recently his own consultancy working alongside Mediazoo.
John Gordon, CPO at Mediazoo Group, said: “The AI skills gap is not about tools. Most enterprises already have access to Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini. The gap is in knowing how to deploy them effectively across the full programme lifecycle.
With the right skills, teams can achieve in hours what currently takes weeks. This is about giving L&D professionals the capability to operate as genuine strategic partners to their organisations.”
Mediazoo Group is a creative learning and communications business, and John’s appointment anchors the next phase of its AI-powered product strategy.