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This list showcases the top United Kingdom based Vice President operating in the Publishing space. If you think a Vice President is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.co.uk.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Companies House UK, Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Olivier Robert-Murphy
Executive Vice President of Universal Music Group
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About Universal Music Group: Universal Music Group offers music recording, publishing, and merchandising services worldwide.
Mark Adams
Senior Vice President and Head of Innovation of Vice Media
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About Vice Media: Vice Media is a North American digital media and broadcasting company.
Gavin Howe
Executive Vice President, Human Resources of Elsevier
Gavin Howe is Executive Vice President of Human Resources at Elsevier. He led the successful integration of the Harcourt businesses into Reed Elsevier and led the sale of and transfer of the Harcourt college business to Thomson Reuters. Previously, he was Chief Operations Officer at Elsevier and CEO of the Reed Elsevier Technology Group based in Boston. Having joined Elsevier in 1998, Gavin’s responsibilities have included central marketing, social sciences and economics publishing, IT, production and customer services. For the 15 years prior to joining Elsevier, he worked for another Reed Elsevier company, Reed Business Information in Marketing, Publishing and Electronic Publishing. Gavin rose to be a divisional MD at Reed Business Information and joined the board in 1993. Gavin started his publishing career in Journalism, becoming an editor of a Yachting Magazine.
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About Elsevier: Elsevier is a world-leading provider of information solutions that enhance the performance of science, health, and technology.
Chloe MacEwen
Senior Vice President of Argus Media group
Chloe MacEwen is Senior Vice-President, Global Public and Regulatory Affairs, based in London. She joined in 2014 and is responsible for Argus’ engagement with policy makers, legislators and regulators around the world. Chloe qualified as a solicitor at Simmons & Simmons and then worked as a competition lawyer at Herbert Smith before spending ten years working as a regulator at the Competition Commission, Office of Fair Trading and DG Competition, European Commission. Prior to joining Argus Chloe had worked as Head of International Policy at Lloyds Banking Group overseeing the bank’s engagement strategy with policy makers on a broad range of financial services and competition issues. Chloe was educated at Kings College London where she gained a LLB and LLM
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About Argus Media group: Argus Media group is a global energy and commodity price reporting agency.
Elliott Clayton
Vice President of Conversant Media
Elliott holds a decade of expertise in media personalisation, blending technology, strategy, and massive data for many of the top Fortune 500 companies. As Vice President, Elliott focuses on the importance of accountable media spend through personalisation at scale, leading Conversant’s vision in solving the most challenging digital media issues facing CMOs and media agencies today. Prior to joining Conversant, Elliot worked in various international publishing houses in the financial and lifestyle sector. He has an English Studies (Euro), English and Spanish degree from the University of Leeds.
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About Conversant Media: Conversant Media provides online publications.
