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| Main board members |
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| Chairman |
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Jeremy Wilson was appointed to the Bloomsbury Board in November 2005 and became Non-Executive Chairman in September 2007. He is Vice Chairman, Business Banking,
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, responsible for major
corporate and institutional client business.
He has several external interests including
appointments in the educational field. |
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Executive Directors |
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Nigel
Newton is the founder of Bloomsbury, and is Chief Executive. After two years as assistant to
the sales director at Macmillan London,
he joined Sidgwick & Jackson in 1977
where, during the next nine years, he
became sales director and deputy
managing director, before leaving to
found Bloomsbury in 1986 when he saw
an opportunity for a new, independent,
medium-sized publisher of books of
excellence and originality. |
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Liz
Calder is a co-founder of
Bloomsbury and is Publisher. She started
her publishing career at Victor Gollancz in
1970 where she was publicity manager
then editorial director. In 1978 she moved
to Jonathan Cape as editorial director
where she was responsible for the
publishing of two Booker Prize winners,
Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
and Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner. At Bloomsbury she has been responsible
for two further Booker winners, The English
Patient by Michael Ondaatje and The Blind
Assassin by Margaret Atwood. She was a
founding director of the Groucho Club
and has served on the Literature Panel
of the Arts Council. She is a Director of
Brazilian Contemporary Arts in London,
and is the founder president of the Parati
International Literary Festival in Brazil.
During 2004 she was awarded the
National Order of the Southern Cross
and the Order of Cultural Merit by the
Brazilian Government. |
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Colin
Adams is Group Finance
Director. He qualified as a chartered
accountant with KPMG before joining
CAM Galaxy Holdings Ltd 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. He is also Finance
Director of A&C Black Publishers Ltd,
Walker Publishing Company, Inc. and
Berlin Verlag, as well as Executive Vice
President of Diana Publishing Inc. |
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Richard Charkin was appointed an executive director of the Company in October 2007 with responsibility for operations worldwide and with particular focus on growth through acquisitions, new publishing areas and international expansion. Richard began his career in 1972 as Science Editor of Harrap & Co. He held senior positions at Pergamon Press, Oxford University Press, Reed International/Reed Elsevier, Current Science Group, and most recently as Chief Executive of Macmillan Publishers Limited, Chairman of Macmillan India Ltd., and Executive Director of Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck. His other publishing interests include being Non-Executive Director of Melbourne University Publishing, Non-Executive Director of Wisden Group, Member of the Strategy Advisory Board of the British Library, Chair of the Society of Bookmen and recently 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 San Francisco based
venture capitalist. Mr Mayer was
actively involved in the early development
of AOL and has worked with a broad range
of companies during his 20 years in
venture capital. He also has a long history
of involvement in strategic acquisition
transactions, which should prove helpful
as the Company seeks to grow through
acquisition. Mr Mayer was previously a
partner at the then Price Waterhouse. |
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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. |
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.
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. Stephanie is also responsible for Bloomsbury's IT systems.
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.
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.
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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| Jonathan Glasspool __
Publishing Director, Reference, Theatre and Ornithology
joined in 2003. He is also responsible for reference electronic
rights at Bloomsbury. 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,
Pitman Publishing and Butterworth-Heinemann. |
| 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
from 1983-1992. |
| 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. |
| 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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