Online Pioneer
Outside of his novels, Hunt is known for his work as one of the pioneers of Web-based content.
His first role with the online world was in 1991 when he worked on the UK rollout of the AppleLink service, Apple's pre-Web equivalent of AOL/Compuserve. In 1997 he launched the web site for the science journal Nature for Macmillan Publishers, as well as their sister titles (Nature Genetics, Nature Medicine). Nature.com went on to the win the first Periodical Publishers Association (PPA) Award for web-based content.
Hunt then became online publisher for the Risk Waters group, in charge of creating an online presence for their stable of magazines. Working at Risk, one of his projects was FinanceWise, a finance-specific search engine created as a joint venture between Risk and IBM. It won the Financial Times Award for Best Web Site in the year of its launch.
Shortly after winning the FT Award, he was hired by the Financial Times to be head of online development for their own magazine arm, where he introduced sites for their media, including Investors Chronicle, The Banker, as well as various channels of the newspaper's main FT.com site.
In 2001, Hunt became research director of the investment bank Almeida Capital, where he founded AltAssets, an online service focused on the venture capital and private equity market.
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