The board |
Chairman |
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Jeremy Wilson joined the Bloomsbury Board as a Non-Executive Director in November 2005 and was appointed Non-Executive Chairman on 27 September 2007. He is Vice-Chairman, Barclays Corporate, Barclays Bank PLC. He joined Barclays in 1972. During his career at Barclays, Mr Wilson has held a variety of senior management positions, both in the UK and abroad, and has been responsible for major corporate and institutional client business. He is also responsible for a number of Financial Service and industry initiatives within the UK and globally. |
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Executive Directors |
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Nigel Newton is the founder and Chief Executive of Bloomsbury Publishing. He was born and raised in San Francisco and is a dual citizen of the US and UK. He read English at Cambridge. After working at Macmillan Publishers, he joined Sidgwick & Jackson. He left Sidgwick in 1986 to start Bloomsbury. Bloomsbury floated on The London Stock Exchange in 1994 and has grown organically and through strategic acquisitions and partnerships. Bloomsbury publishes over 1,000 books a year and employs 348 people in the UK, USA and Germany. Bloomsbury authors include JK Rowling, John Irving, David Guterson, Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje, Daniel Goleman, Ben McIntyre, Kate Summerscale, Elizabeth Gilbert, Heston Blumenthal, Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall and Khaled Hosseini.
Nigel Newton serves as President of Book Aid International, Member of the Man Booker Prize Advisory Committee, Chairman of The Charleston Trust, Trustee of The Asham Literary Trust, Trustee of The Garrick Charitable Trust, past Chair of World Book Day (2006), past member of the Publishers Association Council, St Patrick's Church, Soho Square Executive Committee member, and Chairman of Rescue The Cuckmere Valley. |
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Colin
Adams is Group Finance Director. He qualified as a chartered accountant with KPMG before joining CAM Galaxy Holdings Limited as financial controller in 1989. In 1991 he joined Larousse Plc, the UK subsidiary of Groupe de la Cite SA, a large French publisher, as financial controller, before joining Bloomsbury in April 1994 as Finance Director. In 2007 he was appointed to the Investment Committee of the Creative Capital Fund, an equity fund that provides seed capital investment to entrepreneurs and businesses in London's creative industries. He is also Finance Director of A&C Black Publishers Limited, Bloomsbury Professional Limited and Berlin Verlag, as well as Executive Vice-President of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc. |
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Richard Charkin joined the Bloomsbury Board as an Executive Director in October 2007. He began his career in 1972 as Science Editor of Harrap & Co. He has since held senior roles at Pergamon Press, Oxford University Press, Reed International/Reed Elsevier, Current Science Group and has been Chief Executive Officer of Macmillan Publishers Limited and Executive Director of Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck. Other publishing interests of Mr Charkin include being Non-Executive Director of Institute of Physics Publishing, Member of the Strategy Advisory Board of the British Library and he was President of the Publishers Association. |
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Non-Executive Directors |
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Charles Black was appointed Vice-Chairman and senior independent Non-Executive Director of Bloomsbury in June 2005, having originally joined the Bloomsbury Board in June 2004. He started working for A&C Black in 1960 and was appointed Chairman and Joint Managing Director of the Board in 1973. He subsequently stepped down following the acquisition of A&C Black by Bloomsbury in 2000. Mr Black has considerable knowledge of reference and practical non-fiction publishing and was involved with the strategic acquisitions A&C Black made during his time as Chairman. He is Chairman of the Audit and Remuneration Committees. |
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Michael Mayer joined the Bloomsbury Board in January 2002. He is a partner in a San Francisco-based private equity firm. Mr Mayer was actively involved in the early development of AOL and has worked with a broad range of companies during his more than 20 years in venture capital and private equity firms. He also has a long history of involvement in strategic acquisition transactions, which should prove helpful as the Group seeks to grow through acquisition. Mr Mayer was previously a partner at Price Waterhouse. |
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Sarah Jane Thomson joined the Bloomsbury Board in May 2010. She founded Thomson Intermedia Plc in 1997 (now Ebiquity Plc), a media information business using internet and technology to capture and deliver real-time advertising creatives and expenditure data for businesses. The company was floated on AIM in 2000 and she remains on the Board. In 2006, she founded First News, the weekly newspaper for children which has become the most widely read children's publication in the UK and she continues to be actively involved in driving the business forward. Her other roles include: founder of Priority One, an IT outsourcing business, serving medium size businesses in Central London and joint CEO of Addictive Interactive a newly launching Social Network for brands. Her previous roles include: Head of Information at valin Pollen (Public Relations Consultancy) and Sales & Marketing Director at Mintel (Global Consumer, Product and Market Research). |
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Senior Executives |
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Kathleen Farrar - Marketing Director joined Bloomsbury in December 1998 as International Sales Manager, having previously worked for Allen & Unwin Australia. She began her publishing career working in the leading independent bookstores in Sydney, Australia before moving to Allen & Unwin as Sales & Promotions Manager. She became International Sales Director in early 2000 responsible for all International Sales as well as Bookclub and Special sales in the UK. As of September 2007 she has taken overall charge of all sales, marketing, publicity and website activity for Bloomsbury UK. |
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Sarah Odedina joined
Bloomsbury as Editorial Director for the children's list
in January 1997. She began her publishing career in 1988
in the rights department of Penguin books. In 1992 she
moved to the Watts Publishing Group where she was Rights
Director of Watts non-fiction and Orchard fiction. This
position was invaluable in providing the commercial training
upon which she has built an exciting new role in editorial.
She is also a director of the management Board, Bloomsbury
Book publishing Company Limited which also includes the
Plc Directors. |
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Alexandra Pringle is Editor-in-Chief of Bloomsbury. She began her career in publishing at Virago Press in 1978 where she edited the famous Virago Modern Classics series. In 1984 she was made Editorial Director, later becoming part of the management team to steer Virago through their management buy-out from Cape, Chatto & Bodley Head. In 1990 she joined Hamish Hamilton as Editorial Director and four years later left publishing to become a literary agent with Toby Eady Associates. She joined Bloomsbury in 1999. Her list of authors includes Donna Tartt, Barbara Trapido, Richard Ford, Esther Freud, William Boyd, Ronan Bennett and Susanna Clarke. She is a Director of the Management Board, Bloomsbury Book Publishing Company Limited which also includes the Plc Directors. |
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Kathy Rooney was appointed joint Managing Director of Bloomsbury's
German company, Berlin Verlag, in January 2005 and is based in Berlin. Kathy has been Publishing Director of
Bloomsbury since January 1987 when she joined the company to start Bloomsbury's Reference Division, now part of
A&C Black, and continues to be Editor-in-Chief of the Bloomsbury English Dictionary. She is on the Board
of A&C Black and is also a director of the Management Board, Bloomsbury Book Publishing Company Limited, which
also includes the Plc Directors. |
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David Ward has worked in publishing since 1982, joining Bloomsbury in 1987. He
started his career as a sales representative for Alan
Sutton Publishing, moving to Penguin Books in 1985. In
1987 he was approached to join the founding team at Bloomsbury
as Sales Representative for the North of England and
Scotland. He became the company's Key Accounts Manager
in 1993 and was promoted to National Accounts Manager
two years later. In March 1998 David Ward was appointed
as Sales Director, overseeing a team of twelve people.
He is responsible for sales across Bloomsbury's growing
portfolio, including both adult, children's fiction and
the reference division. He is also a director of the
management Board, Bloomsbury Book publishing Company
Limited which also includes the Plc Directors. |
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Jill Coleman is
Managing Director of A&C Black. She joined the company
as an editor in 1980, and was appointed to the publishing
board as Director for Children's Books in 1986. She joined
the board of A&C Black in 1990 and became Joint Managing
Director in 1995 and Managing Director in 2000. She is
also a director of the management Board, Bloomsbury Book
Publishing Company Limited which also includes the Plc
Directors. |
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Jonathan Glasspool is Managing Director of Bloomsbury Academic and Professional and Deputy Managing Director of A & C Black Ltd. He was formerly Product Director in Bloomsbury's Electronic Media Division. Previous jobs include Publisher with Reed Elsevier in Singapore, Melbourne and Oxford. Jonathan was also Head of Publishing at the Institute of Management, where he worked with Hodder Headline, Pearson and Butterworth-Heinemann. He started his career at Cambridge University Press. |
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| Katie Bond - Publicity Director joined Bloomsbury in
April 1999 as Publicity Director. She began her publishing career at
Sinclair-Stevenson in 1992 and moved to Hodder Headline in 1995 where she was
Publicity Manager for their literary imprint Sceptre. At Bloomsbury she has
led major media campaigns in 2000 for new titles by Joanna Trollope, Michael
Ondaatje, Will Self and Margaret Atwood. |
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| Stephanie Duncan - Digital Media Director joined Bloomsbury in September 1996 as assistant to Nigel Newton, having worked previously at Sheil Land Associates. She became a special projects manager in 1999 and was actively involved in the completion of the Encarta World English Dictionary among other projects. In 2001, she became responsible for Bloomsbury.com which has grown to include the development of websites, bibliographic databases, and the content digitisation and archival programme for all parts of the Group. |
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| Penny Edwards - Production Director joined Bloomsbury in
1987 as Production Assistant, having worked previously at A Zwemmer Ltd, Fine Art
Booksellers. In 1994 she became Production Director. She is responsible for all
aspects of the printing and production of Bloomsbury books. |
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| Michael Fishwick - Publishing Director joined Bloomsbury in September 2005 as a Publishing
Director. He began his career in publishing in editorial at Penguin in 1982 after finishing his M. Litt at Oxford,
then joined Chatto & Windus in 1984 as an editor. He joined what was then Collins in 1985, becoming
a Publishing Director in 1991. There he published authors as diverse as Francis Wheen, Baroness Thatcher and William
Dalrymple, Richard Ingrams, John Major and Fergal Keane, Amanda Foreman, Mikhail Gorbachev and Katie
Hickman, Lisa Jardine, Tom Bower, Karen Armstrong and Brenda Maddox. In 1992 he was made Publishing
News Editor of the Year. He is also a published novelist with Jonathan Cape, and his second novel
Sacrifices is published in 2006. |
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| Ruth Logan - Rights Director joined Bloomsbury in December
1987 as Rights Manager. Her publishing career began in 1982 at Jonathan Cape where
she sold American and paperback rights in authors such as Martin Amis, Isabel Allende,
Julian Barnes, Roald Dahl and Gabriel García Márquez. She then worked briefly at the
Deborah Rogers Literary Agency, after which she moved back into publishing at
Heinemann and then Bloomsbury, where she is now Rights Director. |
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| A&C Black |
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| Oscar Heini - Production
Director joined A&C Black as Production Manager in
1992 and was appointed to the board in 1994. He began
his publishing career in 1971 with George G Harrap & Co,
moving to Macdonald & Janes in 1976, and becoming Production
Manager of Queen Anne Press in 1979. Prior to joining
Black he was Production Manager for the Macdonald Group
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| Janet Murphy - Editorial
Director joined A&C Black in 1990 when the Adlard
Coles list was acquired and combined with Nautical Books.
She had been Adlard Coles Editor at Harper Collins since
1986 and before that was with Pitman Publishing and Granada
Publishing. She was appointed to the board of A&C Black
Publishing Ltd in 1992. |
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| David Wightman - Sales
Director joined A & C Black in 2001. He began his
publishing career as a representative for Sutton Publishing
before joining Oxford University Press in 1995 as a representative
and then becoming UK Sales Manager in 1998 for their academic
division. He is a member of the A & C Black Publishing
Ltd board and is responsible for A & C Black's sales in
all markets. |
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