Best Startup
At Best Startup UK we track over 130,000 UK startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United Kingdom based CEO’ operating in the Publishing space. If you think a CEO’ 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.
Gareth Capon
CEO of Grabyo
Gareth Capon is the CEO at Grabyo.
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About Grabyo, ShowCaster: Grabyo is the premium video editing and publishing platform built for live, social and mobile.
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Mark Newton-Jones
CEO and Director of Mothercare
Mark Newton-Jones is the CEO and Director at Mothercare.
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About Mothercare: Mothercare Catalogue of baby equipment, clothing and toys with special offers and shopping cart.
John O’Nolan
Founder & CEO of Ghost
Founder at @TryGhost. Tweets about open source, startup life, non-profits, and publishing platforms. Travels the world with a bag of kites.
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About Ghost: Professional, modern, open source publishing
Joe Root
Co-Founder & CEO of Permutive
Joe is co-founder and CEO of Permutive, the only publisher-first Data Management Platform (DMP) that allows publishers to see 100% of their audience and target them in real-time. Y Combinator and EQT backed, Permutive counts Conde Nast, Immediate Media, Hubert Burda, IDG, Dennis and ESI Media among its growing list of clients. Following a BEng Computing at Imperial College and MSc Computer Sciences at Oxford, Joe chose to drop out of a PhD in Mathematical Genomics at Cambridge to start Permutive.
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About Permutive: Permutive is an audience platform for advertisers and publishers to plan, build, and activate cohorts while keeping everyone’s data safe.
Jan van der Crabben
CEO of World History Encyclopedia
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About : Non-profit organization publishing the world’s most-read history encyclopedia.
Julio Bruno
CEO of Time Out Group plc
Julio Bruno is a global leader with a track record in starting, scaling, and improving the profitability, performance, and value of companies. Julio currently serves Time Out Group plc as CEO.
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About Time Out Group plc: Time Out is a leading global media and entertainment business
John Ridding
CEO of Financial Times
John Ridding is the Chief Executive Officer of the Financial Times Group, one of the world’s leading business news organisations recognised internationally for its authority, integrity and accuracy. Under his stewardship, the FT has expanded its global operations, successfully scaled and transformed its core business and acquired a number of companies that support its multichannel strategy, including Money-Media, Medley Global Advisors, Exec-Appointments, Assanka (renamed FT Labs), Alpha Grid and Longitude. John sits on the board of Bonnier Business Press, part of the international media conglomerate Bonnier AB. He is also Chairman of Room to Read, a US-based charity that supports education and literacy in developing countries, and a member of its UK Advisory Board.
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About Financial Times: Financial Times is a business news organization providing essential news, comments, data, and analysis for the global business community.
Dean Fankhauser
CEO, Co-Founder of Bitcompare
Dean Fankhauser is the CEO and Founder of Bitcompare.
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About Bitcompare, Nuji: Your crypto comparison site
Nick Sabine
Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Resident Advisor
Nick Sabine is the co-founder of Resident Advisor (RA). Established in 2001, RA enables the discovery of new music and events through a unique combination of original content and listings. By providing a platform for artists, promoters and fans RA connects the global dance music community and plays an indispensable role in supporting the electronic music industry worldwide.
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About Resident Advisor: RA is an online music magazine and community platform that’s dedicated to showcasing electronic music, artists and events across the globe.
Rebecca Miskin
CEO of Gloo Networks plc
Rebecca Miskin has 23 years’ executive experience re-aligning UK, US & European organisations in media and sport, deploying a data driven, customer centric and collaborative operational approach. She has held a number of high profile industry roles in publishing, digital & sport. She specialises in business turnarounds and digital transformations delivering new revenue streams and operational improvements with a proven track record of generating growth & value in a public environment. Rebecca co-founded Gloo Networks Plc at the beginning of 2015.
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About DC Thomson, Gloo Networks plc: Gloo Networks plc is a new blueprint for digital media.
Farid Haque
Co-Founder ,CEO & Chairman of Erly Stage Studios
Farid Haque is the Co-Founder ,CEO & Chairman of Erly Stage Studios.He attended to the University of Toronto.
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About AssetVault, DataKiwi, Erly Stage Studios: An Education Venture Studio and digital publishing business, our mission is to make learning fun through engaging content and technology.
Damon Reeve
CEO of The Ozone Project
Damon Reeve works as a CEO Of The Ozone Project. He is a former CEO at Authenticated Digital and Hereford Technologies respectively. He has 10 years of experience in the Internet and advertising industries across Europe, the United States, and Australia. Before launching Unanimis, Damon ran his own brand and interactive marketing consultancy after being Head of Marketing for Excite UK. Damon is also a co-founder of OpenX and remains on the Board as a non-executive Director.
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About The Ozone Project: The Ozone Project is a transparent and brand-safe platform offering advertisers direct access to an audience for programmatic advertising.
Charlie Redmayne
CEO, HarperCollins UK of HarperCollins
Charlie is CEO of HarperCollins UK. He reports to Brian Murray, President and CEO of HarperCollins Publishers Worldwide Charlie returned to HarperCollins UK after successfully launching J.K. Rowling’s revolutionary digital publishing business, Pottermore. As CEO, he oversaw its birth in 2011 when sales topped £3m in the first month, formed a social gaming partnership with Sony, and won Digital Strategy of the Year at the 2013 Bookseller Industry Awards. He joined HarperCollins in 2008 as Group Digital Director of HarperCollins UK, a role in which he pioneered HarperCollins’ industry-leading digital activity across a range of activities. During this time, the author community website authonomy.com won a Bookseller Industry Award for Digital Innovation in 2010. In 2009, he was promoted to run the global digital programme as Executive Vice President, Chief Digital Officer, based in HarperCollins’ head office in New York. Charlie joined HarperCollins from News Corp’s BSkyB, where he was Head of Commercial Partnerships for the Sky Online Business Unit. Prior to that, he worked in advertising and marketing, founding and running the media buying company RCL Communications and big screen entertainment business Blink TV, before launching leading UK teen Internet company Mykindaplace Ltd in 2000, which he sold to BSkyB in 2006.
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About HarperCollins: HarperCollins is an English language publisher that offers a range of Bibles, atlases, dictionaries, and reissued classics.
James Mawson
CEO and Editor-in-Chief of Mawsonia
James was editor of Private Equity News, part of Dow Jones and The Wall Street Journal in London, for nearly four years until May, 2010 when he launched Global Corporate Venturing as an independent title from his own publishing company. This was followed by the launch of Global University Venturing and Global Government Venturing by the publishing company, Mawsonia.
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About Global Corporate Venturing, London Press Club, Mawsonia: Mawsonia is a publishing and events company. Titles: Global Corporate Venturing, Global University Venturing, Global Government Venturing.
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Founder & CEO of ContentCal
Alex Packham is the Founder & CEO at ContentCal.
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About ContentCal: ContentCal allows users to collaborate, share, plan and publish content to drive engagement on social media.
Dave Sherwood
Co-Founder & CEO of BibliU
Dave Sherwood co-founder and CEO of Bibliotech, a core etextbooks platform that provides academic libraries and students with unlimited access. He is the co-founder and Chairman of Teach Learn Grow Inc. Dave earned his bachelor’s degree at the University of Western Straya, coming to Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship shortly afterwards. Dave dropped out to found Bibliotech.
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About BibliU: An EdTech innovator, BibliU’s platform enables colleges and universities with digital content management, automation, and analytics.
Zillah Byng-Thorne
CEO of Future
Zillah serves as a CEO at Future plc.
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About Flutter Entertainment, Future, Gocompare.com: Future creates high-quality multi-media products which reach their audiences online, on mobile and in print.
James Henderson
Co-founder and CEO of Zephr
James Henderson is co-founder and CEO of Zephr, the dynamic Subscription Experience Platform built for the effective optimisation and personalisation of the user experience, in order to drive conversion.
After a decade of building custom technologies for clients such as The Telegraph, Discovery and HSBC, James co-founded Zephr in 2018.
James and co-founder Chris Scott raised $3M in funding in 2018 to build Zephr, and then raised another $8M in 2020 on the back of huge success. Today, Zephr operates out of London and New York, with employees representing all corners of the world, and serves a host of international digital publishing and media brands by enabling them to create dynamic experiences for their customers.
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About Zephr: Zephr is a technology platform for media companies to grow their subscription revenue.
Asi Sharabi
Co-Founder & CEO of Wonderbly
Founded in 2014, Wonderbly is a unique, award winning startup that lives on the intersection of storytelling, engineering, digital and print. We are building a new class of global publishing business that brings millions of people into our superbly high quality products – as co-creators and audiences – and in doing so empower them to build connections with each other. We’re calling it Personal Publishing and we believe it’s going to be massive. Backed by top VCs (inc Google Ventures) Our company is based in the UK but with a global footprint. We are a ‘full stack publisher’, handling every aspect of the process of creating our books and serving our customers through our zero inventory, direct to consumer model. While we keep growing and nurturing our core business – creating stunning, uncompromisingly high quality and technically ambitious personalised books for kids – we have recently launched Wonderbly Studios: our strategic partnerships & joint ventures platform. Wonderbly Studios offers access to our world-leading personalisation expertise across design, tech and POD manufacturing.
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About Wonderbly: Wonderbly is a full stack publishing company from London.
Donna Barrett
President & CEO of Community Newspaper Holdings
Donna J. Barrett is President & CEO at Community Newspaper Holdings. She is Member of the Board of Directors at Associated Press.
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About Community Newspaper Holdings: Community Newspaper Holdings is the parent publisher to over one hundred and thirty local community newspapers in the United States.
Tom Weldon
CEO Penguin Random House U.K. of Penguin Random House
Tom Weldon was brought up in London. He studied history at Oxford University, then was hired as a graduate trainee by Macmillan. After three years as a nonfiction commissioning editor there, he joined William Heinemann, then owned by Reed Elsevier. He spent nine years there as an Executive Editor; American Editorial Director, based in New York; and Publisher of the imprint. In 1997 he moved to Penguin as Publishing Director of Michael Joseph. In 2001 he became Managing Director of the Penguin General division (then comprising the Michael Joseph, Viking, Hamish Hamilton, Fig Tree, and Penguin Ireland imprints). He was made Deputy CEO of Penguin U.K. in 2009 and CEO in January 2011. In July 2013, he was appointed the first CEO of Penguin Random House U.K. Tom has also attended London Business School. From the age of nine, Tom has had a passion for horse racing. In his view, gambling is very important to publishing as well. He does not find it surprising, therefore, that he fell in love with publishing on his first day at Macmillan, and that love has never gone away.
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About Penguin Random House: Penguin Random House is a company formed from the merger between the book publishers Random House and Penguin Group
Antoine Amann
Founder & CEO of Echobox
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About Echobox: Echobox is the leading content automation platform
Roy Moed
Founder & CEO of LifeBook
Roy Moed is a Founder & CEO at LifeBook.
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About LifeBook: LifeBook is a UK-based startup offering professionally written autobiographies as gifts for friends and family members.
Adam Penny
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of The Beautiful Truth
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About The Beautiful Truth: The Beautiful Truth is a magazine that honors people and businesses who live their lives with purpose.
Neil Patel
CEO/ Publisher/ Co-founder of The Daily Caller
Neil Patel is the IT Director at Apax Partners based in the London office. Neil joined Apax Partners in 2005. He is responsible for developing and maintaining the Information Technology strategy to meet business requirements. Neil started his career at Apax Partners as a Network Analyst and was promoted through various roles within IT to become IT Director. Neil holds a BSc degree in Business Studies from Cass Business School.
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About Apax Partners, The Daily Caller: The Daily Caller is a 24-hour news publication site providing reporting on politics, world, sports, business, breaking news and more.
Mohammed SHK
Chief Executive Officer of Bazaar Daily UK
Mohammed Abdul Abidiz Sultan Haleem Wali Khane II (b 31 Jan 1995) is a British-American newspaper publisher; blogger, columnist, digital developer, and influencer quietly regarded as a prolific name in European blogging. Having never spoken to the mainstream press, Mohammed is world-renowned for his staunch privacy and elusiveness of the media. He is a mainstay fixture at Hollywood events; Silicon Valley forums, and fashion week. He rose to prominence in the blogging and tech community in 2002 with the launch of Fashion Bzaar (the original Bazaar Daily) and what would become of it today. He has been nominated for numerous accolades as a blogger although has refused to ever appear at any such ceremony. At 25 years old, Mohammed is one of New York ‘s most prominent bloggers given his status and estimated 101M website subscribers. He is best known for having joined the ranks of Wallis & Holdings when he was 7 years old. The partnership led to the creation of a joint agency between Taylor Wallis & Mohammed that would later become Khane Enterprise. When Wallis died at the age of 18, Mohammed became the sole heir to each of their estates.
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About Bazaar Daily UK, Bazaar Daily UK, Daily Chronicle, Gladeon Entertainment, Khane’s Landing: Bazaar Daily (UK) is the British counterpart to Bazaar Daily News, a massive online news agency founded by Sultan H. Khane II.
Matt Heiman
Founder & CEO of The Game Day
Matt Heiman is the Founder and CEO at The Game Day.
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About Cocoon, The Game Day: The Game Day is an operator of a multi-channel platform for sports content.
Andrea Manfredi
Founder & CEO of Blasting News
After graduating from Bocconi University in 2005, Andrea earned an MBA at INSEAD, studying in Paris and Singapore. He spent several years working as a manager in top strategic consulting firms mainly in the UK and Italy. Working as a journalist since 1998, Andrea is the Founder & CEO and the Editor-in-Chief of Blasting News.
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About Blasting News: Blasting News is the leading social news publisher. Where every voice counts.
Asaf Peled
Founder and CEO of Minute Media
Asaf is the Chief Executive Officer of Minute Media, parent company of 90min. Asaf founded 90min in 2011as FTBpro. Since then, 90min has grown to be the world’s largest football media platform, driven by a contributor-driven model, and has expanded the brand throughout Europe, North America, South America and Asia. Asaf is involved in all aspects of Minute Media’s growth and operations, from product development to marketing and content. Prior to 90min, Asaf was the founder and Chief Marketing Officer at Top 7 International and also spent four years at Cisco Systems Israel where he was responsible for business development in the Israeli market. Asaf has a M.B.A. from The Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania and a bachelors of arts from Tel Aviv University. He resides in London and his favorite team is the San Antonio Spurs.
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About 90min, Minute Media: Minute Media is a media and technology brand focused on two main pillars—platform and content.
Steve Timmins
Chief Executive Officer of THE GROOVY GROUP
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About SHOPWITHUSNOW.COM, SOUNDS-MIXES.COM, THE GROOVY GROUP, THE GROOVY GROUP, THEGROOVYGROUP.COM: THE GROOVY GROUP is an online company providing users with the tools to publish multimedia.
Charlie Bryant
Chief Executive Officer of Hometrack
Charlie was appointed Chief Executive of Hometrack in June 2013. He has extensive experience of working with high growth, technology-enabled companies, most recently as Head of Technology Investment Banking for Europe at Deutsche Bank. Previously, Charlie held a number of senior operational roles within Misys plc, including Chairman of Assureweb, Chief Executive of Sesame Technology and Commercial Director of Sesame Group.
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About Hometrack: Hometrack publishes market insight and analysis of residential property trends in the UK
Pete Campbell
CEO & Founder of Kaizen
Pete Reis-Campbell is the CEO & Founder of UK-based digital marketing agency, Kaizen. Kaizen works with brands like Symantec, MusixMatch, and TravelSupermarket to create award-winning content and boost SEO performance, through earned links from top-tier media publications such as the Daily Mail, Marie Claire, Lonely Planet and Business Insider. The company is the fastest growing independent agency for gross profit, as recognized by The Drum, and was featured in the top 50 startups of 2017 by Startups.co.uk. Pete is a regular public speaker at industry-leading SEO conferences such as BrightonSEO, SMX London and SAScon, a published writer on StateofDigital and SearchEngineWatch, and has won awards himself such as the ‘Rising Star’ category at the Travolution Awards for his work with Thomas Cook. Feel free to write to Pete about content marketing, link building, PR, SEO, voice search, entrepreneurship, business growth and more.
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About Kaizen: Kaizen is a content marketing agency in London, based in Moorgate.
Rupert Hodson
CEO of Dianomi
Rupert, Co-Founder and CEO, is responsible for the sales and business development of dianomi and its geographical expansion in both North America and APAC. Prior to founding dianomi Rupert spent 5 years at Interactive Investor heading up the commercial team. He began his financial career in 1994 joining Petropavlosk PLC.
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About Dianomi: Dianomi is a global leader in content marketing.
Didier Metelo
Founder – CEO of Kauris Ltd
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About Kauris Ltd: Kauris Ltd. develops LAMOOVA promoting clubbing trough App, Animation Film and Series, Comics and Website, AR / VR.
Anthony Geffen
CEO and Creative Director of Atlantic Productions
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About Atlantic Productions: Atlantic Productions is one of the world’s leading factual production companies.
Tom Bureau
Chief Executive Officer of Immediate Media Co.
Tom has extensive experience of running print, cross-media and digital content and platform companies. He was co-founder and CEO of digital start-up Silicon Media Group. After its acquisition by CNET Networks, Tom led the expansion of this highly profitable digital content pure play in Europe. Tom joined cross-media platform business Magicalia as CEO in mid 2008, working with Exponent Private Equity. The merger of Magicalia, BBC Magazines and Origin Publishing in November 2011 created Immediate Media Co. Tom has steered the company to fast growth in both profitability and digital innovation since then.
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About Immediate Media Co.: Immediate Media Co. is a special interest content and platform company.
Erhan Korhaliller
CEO & Founder of EAK Digital
EAK Digital is a leading tech PR agency that works with clients to help them achieve mass media coverage, brand recognition and visibility driven growth. Erhan was recently the main stage Host/MC at the Austria Blockchain Summit and is a regular Host/MC/Moderator at major blockchain conferences. Erhan is also the presenter of EAK TV, interviewing blockchain’s thought leaders, including exclusives with Changpeng Zhao of Binance, Charles Hoskinson of IOHK and Johnson Zhao of NEO.
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About EAK Digital: EAK Digital Turning Local Experts into Global Influencers. Get writing for major publications. Grow your influence today.
Jodie Ginsberg
Chief Executive Officer of Internews Network
Jodie Ginsberg is CEO @ Index on Censorship.
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About Internews Network: Internews Network is a non-profit news providing organization.
Chris Jones
Chief Executive Officer of BMJ Group
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About BMJ Group: BMJ Group provides medical information and resources to doctors, researchers, healthcare workers, and patients worldwide.
Irina Gofman
Founder & CEO of Viasat World
Irina Gofman was appointed as President and CEO of Viasat World in January 2016. Prior to this, Irina worked for MTG AB, International Media and Broadcasting Group, as Executive Vice President of the Group’s Russian & CIS broadcasting operations and Pay TV Emerging Markets, and as CEO of MTG Russia & CIS. Irina was also CEO of Rambler Media Group between 2004 and 2007, and worked for MTG between 2002 and 2004 as Chief Operating Officer of the DTV Russian TV. Irina was instrumental in the launch of Viasat Broadcasting’s wholesale pay-TV business in Russia. She graduated with a Ph.D. in Philology from Moscow State University and an MBA from Babson College in the United States.
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About Viasat World: Viasat World has a rich and diverse portfolio of content brands – movies, factual and sport.
Rory Brown
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of AgriBriefing
Rory co-founded Briefing Media in 2010. Prior to that, Rory has spent over 20 years in senior positions across a wide range of international business media companies.Rory began his career in marketing at commodities and financial information specialist Metal Bulletin before joining Emap to help develop a digital subscription business for the Middle East. After marketing director positions at Risk Waters Group and Incisive Media. Rory became a divisional managing director for Incisive Media in 2005 leading an acquired division in North America. Rory currently serves as the company’s CMO with specific responsibility for agribusiness content, price discovery, subscription development and the event portfolio. He is a former director of the Specialised Information Publishers Association.
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About AgriBriefing, SIPA, The Media Briefing: AgriBriefing is a business media company that specializes in pricing, data, marketing solutions, news, market intelligence, and insight.
Anthony Leyens
CEO of Absolute Publishing Limited
Accomplished Senior Executive with a high degree of business development and a wide range of leadership skills with a proven track record of start up launch, strategic planning and sales direction in the key areas of travel, leisure and media related businesses. Leading Customer Publishing Group specialising in travel, sports, consumer, b2b, spa and direct response online and offline publishing and based in the City of London. Over four divisions we publish over 24 titles which represents over 70+ issues which are either sold on the news-stand or have a controlled circulation and are available online to very specific targeted audiences. Using state-of-the art production techniques, we can create anything from glossy monthly magazines and one-off publications to direct response material, e-magazines and directories. With highly experienced in-house editorial, design, sales and production teams, we can manage every stage of a project, from conception to publication, to produce stylish and engaging online, offline and application magazines that will create response and call to action. Publications include: ABTA, ASTA, National Geographic Traveller, Spa Secrets, Classic Sports Series (World Cup Football, Champions League, EURO 2012, Formula One, Rugby World Cup, The Six Nations, Best of British Sports Review of the Year, The Open and Ryder Cup) Welcome to London and a wide selection of tabloid supplements inserted in The Mail on Sunday and Guardian Newspaper. Lastly, we publish a variety of tailor made customer publications on behalf of many Blue-Chip, FTSE 100/PLC Companies.
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About Absolute Publishing Limited, Transamerica: Absolute Publishing Ltd is a content provider specializing in high quality trave
George Ioannidis
CEO of IN2 Search Interfaces Development Limited
George Ioannidis (Dr.-Ing., MBA) is the director of IN2 search interfaces development Ltd, a software company he founded in 2005 with the mission to simplify media management and publishing. IN2’s core product is MyMeedia, a cloud-based software as a service, to collect, enrich, discover and publish social media, web feeds and multimedia content for brands, events and destinations.
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About IN2 Search Interfaces Development Limited: IN2 Search Interfaces Development Limited collects, organizes, discovers, enriches and presents photos, documents and audiovisual files.
Stuart Miles
Founder and CEO of Pocket lint
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About Pocket lint: Pocket-lint the largest independent gadget news and reviews site in the UK.
Geoff Baker
Founder & CEO of ICN Corporate
Geoff Baker’s background is publishing and finance. After training as a CIMA accountant and becoming Financial Controller of Dutch media giant VNU’s UK publishing company in 1997, Geoff spent 4 years coordinating mergers and acquisitions for the European Publishing Division. Geoff returned to the UK team in 2001 as Publishing Director responsible for 5 magazines and charged with overseeing the company’s transition from magazine publisher to multi media player. Geoff was then placed in charge of a global business unit of research company ACNielsen after it was acquired by VNU. After a 2 year stint as CEO of a privately backed venture, Geoff decided to launch his own company, ICN.
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About ICN Corporate: ICN offers a diverse range of products and services, primarily Apps, but also Web, IPTV and social media.
Susan Jurevics
Chief Executive Officer of Pottermore
Jurevics was named Chief Executive Officer of Pottermore in October 2013, where she is also a Board Director. She joined Pottermore after a 13-year career at Sony Corporation of America, where she pioneered its cross-company, entertainment marketing function. She has extensive experience in P&L management and global brand marketing of leading entertainment, media and technology companies. At Sony, Jurevics established its product placement discipline, creatively integrating the companys electronics products into Sony-produced theatrical, television and music content. She consolidated Sonys multi-million-dollar annual media spend across a dozen companies in North America and re-architected Sonys U.S. digital presence.
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About Pottermore: Pottermore is a free-to-use website from J.K. Rowling, built around the Harry Potter books.
Jack Rivlin
CEO of Tab Media
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About Tab Media: Tab Media is a global youth media startup for people under 25. It publishes The Tab and babe.
Simon Maylott
CEO & Co-Founder of Indie Media Labs
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About Indie Media Labs: SaaS digital publishing and distribution service for book publishers and direct to consumer whitelabel all-in-one publishing platform
Marc Hartog
Founder & CEO of 1854 Media
Marc Hartog is the Founder & CEO at 1854 Media
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About 1854 Media, MN Digital Media, theprintspace: 1854 Media is an award-winning digital media organisation
Chris James
Managing Director, CEO of Steel Media
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About Steel Media: Steel Media operate one of the largest advertising networks.
Chris James
Managing Director, CEO of Steel Media
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About Steel Media: Steel Media operate one of the largest advertising networks.
Duncan Horton
CEO of Jacobs Media Group
Duncan Horton is CEO at Travel Weekly Group.
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About Jacobs Media Group, Travel Weekly Group: Jacobs Media Group develops a portfolio of brands based in London but with a truly multinational footprint spanning five continents.
Ashmita Das
Co-founder and CEO of Kolabtree
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About Kolabtree: Find & hire experts, top postdocs & PhDs, as research collaborators for your academic or business projects.Speed up your research work!
Charles Thiede
CEO and Co-Founder of Zapnito
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About Zapnito: Zapnito is the SaaS online community platform for intelligence-driven organizations.
Mantas Malukas
Founder & CEO of Dapp Life
Mantas Malukas is an entrepreneur, journalist & blogger. As an entrepreneur his main focus is in the development of high level concepts mainly in the editorial news projects and journalism.
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About Dapp Life: Dapp Life is an online platform that features cryptocurrency news, crypto app reviews and incisive commentary on blockchain and dApps.
Keith Fox
CEO of Phaidon Press
Keith Fox is CEO at Phaidon Press.
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About Phaidon Press: Phaidon Press publishes books and operates a platform related to visual arts.
Robin Miller
CEO of EMAP Publishing (UK)
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About EMAP Publishing (UK): EMAP is a business-to-business multiplatform media group, whose brands inform, inspire and connect within the sectors they operate in.
Benjamin Cohen
Publisher & CEO of PinkNews
Benjamin Cohen is a Publisher & CEO at PinkNews.
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About PinkNews: PinkNews is a gay news service that provides the latest information on current affairs, entertainment, travel, and more.
Michele Kuegler
Wine Educator, Founder, CEO & Editor-in-Chief of Peku Publications
Michele Pesula Kuegler is the CEO and Editor-in-Chief of PeKu Publications and has held this role since March 2010. Prior to that Ms. Pesula Kuegler was the director of content for PeKu Publications (formerly known as Wasabi Media Group) since its inception in July 2008. Prior to this position Michele was the editor of Tasty Thoughts, an independent food and restaurant website that she started in 2007. Ms. Pesula Kuegler entered the world of publishing with a unique background and fresh perspective. Having built a small audience in her initial niche property, Tasty Thoughts, she decided to combine her management and editing skills from her teaching career with her newly developed publishing skills by expanding from one property to a network of publications. Since the launch of Wasabi Media Group, she has overseen the continued growth of content and readers. Michele holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Criminal Justice and a Master’s Degree in Elementary Education. She volunteers for several non-profit groups, which are focused on literacy and education.
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About Peku Publications, Think Tasty, Wasabi Ventures Stables: Founded in 2008, PeKu Publications is one of the fastest growing media companies that delivers original quality content.
Will Hayward
Chief Executive Officer of Private Media
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About Private Media, The Wheeler Centre: Private Media is a fiercely independent digital media company whose publications include Crikey, SmartCompany and The Mandarin.
Gerard McBreen
CEO and Founder of Komodo Learning
Gerard McBreen is the CEO and founder at Komodo Learning.
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About Komodo Learning: Komodo Learning is an online mathematics home learning app for children.
Matthew Barker
Founder, CEO of Horizon Guides
Matt has spent much of the last 10 years living abroad, including North and South America and SE Asia. He’s now back home in Sheffield, England, manning the fort at Horizon HQ and putting down some roots with his wife and their adopted Thai street dog.
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About Horizon Guides: Horizon Guides aims to help people enjoy more authentic and memorable travel experiences.
Dinis Guarda
CEO and Founder of Ztudium
Dinis Guarda, author, CEO, and founder of the companies ztudium, techabc, and open business council platform. Dinis Guarda is also the founding member of the Ubuntu Tribe utribe.one impact platform that is creating access to basic financial services & wealth creation opportunities to solve global poverty trap. Dinis Guarda has a Master’s degree in new media. Dinis Guarda is an author, writer, artist, academic, B2B2C tech influencer, inventor and serial entrepreneur. Dinis is a world-renowned thought leader, strategist, futurist and speaker, an International Bestselling Author, and a media personality who covers the pressent and future of business, technology and society. Dinis is a World Class Leader in multiple fields and has a passsion to push ideas, action and technology together to create better solutions, narratives and paths. Dinis Guarda specialises in the crossroad between strategy, ideas, business, poetry, technology and how 4IR, AI, Fintech, digital transformation and Blockchain are changing Humanity. Dinis Guarda has decades of experience in international business, C level positions and digital transformation. Dinis has worked with new tech, cryptocurrencies, drive ICOs, regulation, compliance, legal international processes, and has created a bank, and been involved in the inception of some of the top 100 digital currencies. Dinis Guarda has created various companies such as ztudium tech platform a digital and blockchain startup that created the software Blockimpact (sold to Glance Technologies Inc) and founder and publisher of intelligenthq.com, openbusinesscouncil.org, fashionabc.org, hedgethink.com, and tradersdna.com. Dinis has been working with the likes of UN / UNITAR, UNESCO, European Space Agency, Davos WEF, Philips, Saxo Bank, Mastercard, Barclays and governments all over the world. Dinis Guarda has been a guest lecturer at Copenhagen Business School, Group INSEEC/Monaco University, where he has been coordinating executive Masters and MBAs. Dinis Guarda is ranked as one of the most influential people in Blockchain in the world by Right Relevance as well as being listed in Cointelegraph’s Top People In Blockchain in 2019 and Rise Global’s The Artificial Intelligence Power 100. He is also listed on multiple lists on global top leaders on Fintech, digital transformation and Technology at large. Dinis Guarda has been collaborating with multiple governments and global leading companies and organisations. An example is the collaboration with the newly-appointed Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC) chairman Datuk Rais Hussin collaborating in the concept of Malaysia 5.0 as a new narrative for the country. “MDEC will no doubt play a leading role in introducing emerging technologies which are essential tools in the new Malaysia 5.0 digital economy. If such a policy is missing from our national strategy, Malaysia will be left behind and excluded from digital ecosystems and workforces,” Rais said in his inaugural statement. Touting his personal passion for digital transformation, he referred to the book 4IR: Reinventing a Nation which was co-authored with blockchain / AI / Fintech expert Dinis Guarda and launched in October last year, is meant to be a blueprint of sorts to assist governments of developing nations in their digital transformation agenda. More here https://www.malaymail.com/news/malaysia/2020/06/16/new-mdec-chief-pushes-for-malaysia-5.0-concept/1875908
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Franky Branckaute
CEO of Splashpress
Franky Branckaute is CEO at Splashpress.
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About Splashpress: Splashpress Media is offered consultancy service in content, design, business blogging, and new media marketing in general.
Robert Berkeley
CEO of Express KCS
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About Express KCS: Express KCS provides companies around the world with a turnkey route to offshoring their media production.
Dr Liz Durden-Myers
CEO / Managing Director of PE Scholar
Education Consultant, Physical Educator and International Speaker. Co-Founder & Managing Director at Scholary Ltd and PE Scholar Ltd. Senior Lecturer in Physical Education at Bath Spa University, UK and University of Gloucestershire, UK. Chair of the International Physical Literacy Association (IPLA).
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About PE Scholar: PE Scholar is an international publisher of high quality physical education resources, curated research, and sector-wide insight.
Alex Cheney
Founder & CEO of Smarter Learn Limited
Alex Cheney is a Founder & CEO at Smarter Learn Limited.
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About Smarter Learn Limited: Smarter Learn is a publisher of educational games and digital content for smartphones, tablets, and laptops.
Mary O’Donnell
CEO of MarketLine Research
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About MarketLine Research: MarketLine Research publishes company, industry, and country information, covering 200+ countries and every major industry sector.
Nick James
Chief Executive Officer of GRC World Forums
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About Fresh Business Thinking, GRC World Forums: GRC World Forums provides expertise in the field of business insight and educational resources that govern risk and compliance.
Corrina McCann
Co-Founder / Chief Executive Officer of Infinite Mixed Reality
Corrina McCann is the creative director of Infinite Mixed Reality.
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About Infinite Mixed Reality, Infinite Mixed Reality: Infinite Mixed Reality is a full-service virtual reality and augmented reality agency.
Miles Galliford
CEO of Beatroot Music
Miles Galliford is the Founder /CEO at Beatroot Music Ltd.
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About Beatroot Music: Empowering record labels and music publishers to prosper in the digital world by aggregating music catalogues, metadata and rights data
Alan Moore
Founder & CEO of Taxworld
Alan Moore is a Founder & CEO at Taxworld.
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About Taxworld: Taxworld Ltd. is a highly innovative publishing company that is a leading supplier of tax legislation and commentary.
Tom Hodgkinson
Founder, CEO and Editor of Idler Academy
Tom Hodgkinson (born 1968) is a British writer, and the editor of The Idler, which he established in 1993 with his friend Gavin Pretor-Pinney. His philosophy, in his published books and articles, is of a relaxed approach to life, enjoying it as it comes rather than toiling for an imagined better future.
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About Idler Academy: The Idler is a quirky brand comprising online course business, quarterly journal, book publisher.
Asaf Amir
CEO of Chatsuite
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About Chatsuite: Chatsuite empower publishing, brand engagement and chat marketing campaign management across multi channel messaging platforms.
Henry Stuart
Co-Founder & CEO of Visualise
Henry Stuart is the co-founder and CEO of Visualise, an award-winning virtual reality production studio founded in 2012. A pioneer in the VR industry since 2006, Henry is regularly invited to speak at international events and is a regular contributor for national newspapers, TV, advertising, marketing and trade journals. Over the past 4 years Visualise has produced over 60 VR experiences for clients including Thomas Cook, BBC, Financial Times, Audi, Oakley, Samsung, Wimbledon, Doctors without Borders, The Economist, O2 and many more.
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About Visualise: VISUALISE are a full service Virtual Reality production agency, creating world class VR experiences and films.
James Hunter
CEO of Scafld
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About Scafld: Helping acquire and convert customers with clever ways to create and deliver engaging customer journeys.
Jim Hunt
CEO of VTA Publications
Jim Hunt is the CEO of VTA Publications, and a financial advisor. Making a name for himself on the stock market, Jim is known for being able to spot market trends, and predict activity with an extreme accuracy. Currently, he’s providing investment tips and strategic outlines through his company VTA Publications, which specializes in distance learning courses, aimed at teaching new investors how to invest safely.
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About VTA Publications: VTA Publications is a non fiction publisher of distance learning courses.
Jim Hunt
CEO of VTA Publications
Jim Hunt is the CEO of VTA Publications, and a financial advisor. Making a name for himself on the stock market, Jim is known for being able to spot market trends, and predict activity with an extreme accuracy. Currently, he’s providing investment tips and strategic outlines through his company VTA Publications, which specializes in distance learning courses, aimed at teaching new investors how to invest safely.
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About VTA Publications: VTA Publications is a non fiction publisher of distance learning courses.
Zain Verjee
Co-Founder and CEO of aKoma
Zain Verjee is a respected and recognised journalist, with 14 years of experience at CNN as an anchor, reporter and profound interviewer. Her passion for Africa has led her to create aKoma, Africa’s premier digital storytelling platform. She is Kenyan born and passionate about Africa today.
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About aKoma: A digital storytelling and content publishing platform for Africa.
Zain Verjee
Co-Founder and CEO of aKoma
Zain Verjee is a respected and recognised journalist, with 14 years of experience at CNN as an anchor, reporter and profound interviewer. Her passion for Africa has led her to create aKoma, Africa’s premier digital storytelling platform. She is Kenyan born and passionate about Africa today.
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About aKoma: A digital storytelling and content publishing platform for Africa.
