The Specialist Media Show

Conference Speakers

Speakers at the 2010 Conference included: Mark Elliott of Time Out, Riva Elliott of PMA, Trevor Foley of TFconnect, Miles Galliford of SubHub, Graeme Gourlay of Circle Publishing, Ben Greenish of the Spectator, Craig Hanna of Econsultancy, Peter Harris of Centaur, Paul Hood of Mirror Group, Peter Houston of Advanstar, Claire Jenkinson of RBI, Steve Kemish of Cyance, Barry McIlheney, CEO of PPA, Andrew Mercer, CEO of East of England Agricultural Society, Jenny Moseley of Opt4, Phil Redwood of Fusion Communications, Fiona Ryder of Stream Exchange, Mark Stubbs of Pixel mags, Chris Talintyre of Factory Media, Duncan Tickell of Magicalia and Louise White of Incisive.

Read their biographies below to see the wealth of publishing, digital, marketing, editorial, commercial and events expertise that delegates could tap into at the Conference. As well as panel discussions on live events, digital media, relationship marketing, commercial partnerships and the future of specialist media, you'll have opportunities to ask your own questions of speakers and experts in small groups. Watch this page for information on more speakers.

  Mark Elliott, Managing Director of Time Out London.

He started his career in 1988 as a local newspaper reporter, before entering the magazine industry in the early 90s, as Chief Sub-Editor and then Assistant Editor of women's weekly Best. In 1998, he joined Emap Consumer Media as the division's first Managing Editor of glossies Red and ELLE, before joining the publishing team. Mark was named the PPA's Publisher Of the Year for his work on Empire and has also run titles as diverse as The Face; Period Living & Traditional Homes; Closer; heat and ELLE Girl. He also spent 18 months working with Channel 4 and a contract publisher on a host of TV-related projects, including Property Ladder and Location, Location, Location magazines.

  Riva Elliott is a full member of the Market Research Society and has been a practising researcher since 1973. She is also a founder member of the Association of Qualitative Researchers.

 Riva is Managing Director of PMA Media Training and PMA Research, and has been tutoring in market research techniques since 1989. PMA Research conducts qualitative and quantitative surveys specialising in the media, IT, children and financial products. Riva has wide experience of research in many other areas including tourism, retailing, advertising, business to business, FMCG, car clinics, pharmaceuticals, customer care and employee satisfaction surveys.

Riva has worked as a buyer, implementer and doer of research, and understands the needs of clients at first hand. She helped to establish Camputers, one of the first home computer companies, taking it on to floatation as a greenfields company in the early 1980s. She also helped to establish an educational software house. It was at the launch of Camputers that Riva and Keith Elliott (then editor of one of the most successful computer titles) met.

In her career so far, Riva has launched McDonalds in the UK, introduced the British to Perrier water, helped redesign SAAB and Jaguar cars and advised Cambridge Cable (now Virgin Media) on how to sell cable television and telephony to local residents. She has a degree in psychology and statistics from Southampton University, and has worked in Europe, the USA and Australia, and for many multinational corporations.

She has also been known to write the occasional fishing column in the Independent on Sunday.

  Trevor Foley is an informative, energetic, motivational and entertaining public speaker on the events industry. He is widely regarded as one of the best connected people in the global events/exhibitions world!

He practises what he preaches with a track record of launching and growing businesses and great events. He spent 10 years launching, running and growing events for event organisers… a tough crowd to please! This was as head of the Events Industry Alliance (which he launched) and the Association of Event Organisers.

He launched tfconnect in mid-2008 and is active in many areas of the events industry including Mergers & Acquisitions, recruitment and in September of this year launched the very successful Global Event Summit – an event for global CEO’s focused on geo-cloning, partnerships and M&A activities.
 

 Miles Galliford is the co-founder of SubHub.com, a paid content publishing platform targeted at small publishers, organisations and 'infopreneurs'. Through this company, consulting and running training courses Miles has been involved with launching over a thousand websites.

Miles came to the entrepreneurial start-up world from BT, where for three years he worked in the Internet acquisition and joint ventures team, responsible for identifying and completing deals with US new media companies.

Before founding SubHub Miles was a director of two Internet start-ups which continue to prosper today, one in the content aggregation business for the insurance and auction sectors (Invaluable) and the other a spin-off from Cambridge University providing intelligent search solutions (Transversal).

Miles has a degree in Business Studies and an MBA from the European School of Management in Paris.

Graeme Gourlay is MD of Circle Publishing, who publish magazines and websites for Dive, Geographical, Snow, Go Active and Christian Aid.

  Ben Greenish, MD of the Spectator

Ben Greenish has been in both b2b and b2c media for some 20 + years in various commercial roles, and prior to this spent some 3 years in b2c exhibitions and product marketing.

The real benefit and enjoyment of his various media roles has been the number and variety of different industries he has got to know including travel, consumer, events and hospitality, construction, property, architecture, engineering, financial, insurance, telecoms, recycling and environment, house building and others - working across the full range of media platforms - print/magazines, digital, events, exhibitions, conferences and other face to face media.

Ben is enjoying the world of b2c magazines at Press Holdings, publishers of the Spectator magazine amongst others - a really traditional print product with an incredibly dynamic and growing digital and face to face propositions.

 Craig Hanna, Director of econsultancy, a successful online publishing business. E-consultancy now has over 80,000 members worldwide, and opened its first US office in New York in January 2009. Econsultancy helps its members learn, make better decisions, build business cases, find the best suppliers, accelerate their careers and lead the way in best practice via research reports, how-to guides, training and development, forums and professional networking.

Peter Harris, MD Centaur Special Interest Media, has been involved in both B2B and B2C specialist publishing for what he describes as an indecent number of years. Extending an original specialist magazine brand into other delivery platforms is at the heart of the Centaur strategy. From an original magazine launch as a quarterly Homebuilding & Renovating now has 6 exhibitions annually, multiple online offerings including community interaction, e-commerce and subscription websites, books, a Directory and Awards as well as having grown into the market leading magazine title in its sector. The sum of its parts is absolutely greater than the individual elements which have all been encouraged to operate for the greater good of the brand. The same process is now being applied to acquisitions Period Living and Real Homes.

  Paul Hood is Head of Digital at Mirror Group Newspapers, responsible for the P&L and online publishing strategy for The Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and Scottish Daily Record.

With the launch last year of Mirrorfootball.co.uk and 3am.co.uk, Mirror Group was the first National Newspaper to pioneer a 'special interest' publishing strategy. Both websites have won critical acclaim, and both have attracted significant activity from commercial partners.  Prior to Mirror Group, Paul was Head of Digital for Emap Automotive, a division of Emap Consumer Magazine (now Bauer Media). He was involved in building the first digital presence for MotorcycleNews, and led the reinvigoration of Parkers.co.uk; a redesign that won numerous industry awards, and went on to become Emap's most profitable online business.

With 10 years experience at Emap developing web propositions for special-interest titles, and 3 years at Mirror Group developing large-scale websites, Paul has extensive knowledge, experience and pedigree in online publishing. Paul's favourite 'special interests' are recreational motorcycling and gliding.   You can follow Paul Hood on Twitter : @PaulHood or email: paulhood1@gmail.com

  Peter Houston is Editorial Director for Advanstar Communications in Europe where he is responsible for content strategy in the company's Pharma-Science division. The group publishes the Pharmaceutical Executive, Pharmaceutical Technology and LCGC information portfolios in print and online. Peter has worked in magazine publishing for more than 20 years, first venturing online in 1994 with leading Asian business publisher Globalsources. He has a strong interest in the interaction of traditional business communications with developing digital media formats, particularly digital magazines and recently started the Flipping Pages Blog (www.flippingpages.org.uk) to discuss the future of the format.

  Claire Jenkinson has over twenty years experience in B2B and specialist consumer media, most recently with Reed Business Information and Emap. A sales person by background, Claire started her career in regional press, moving to B2B, and then working in a variety of specialist consumer media markets.

Claire’s background covers a wide range of commercial roles, including Sales Development Director for Emap’s B2B division, where she worked across all B2B media platforms including print, online, event and information. Claire was Group Publishing Director of Nursing Times and Health Service Journal, operating in big recruitment advertising markets and responsible for diversifying the revenue streams for large traditional weekly print brands.
Claire became Managing Director of Emap’s conference business in early 2007, responsible for over 350 conferences in sectors aligned to the business’ core brands.

Claire joined Reed Business Information in 2009 to head up the conference division, operating in global markets including Aerospace, Chemicals, Property and HR.

  Steve Kemish. Director, Cyance Ltd.

With over twelve years of experience in all aspects of digital marketing, Steve Kemish F IDM has worked client-side in both b2b and b2c and offers considerable expertise as a digital marketing specialist, be that consulting, training or lecturing.

Originally from a HCI (Human-Computer Interaction) background, Steve has gained an extensive working knowledge of all principles of online customer interaction and communication. He has worked with many clients to help them realise the potential of digital marketing and has managed e-commerce strategy, development and deployment across many markets.

He has worked on digital marketing and strategy with many global brands including Cisco, ITV, IOD, npower, Skype, British Airways, Random House and Oracle.

In his previous role as Strategy Director at leading email marketing company, Adestra, he worked with many publishing companies, including Incisive Media, BBC Worldwide, Dennis, Puzzler and Random House.

A highly regarded speaker, writer and trainer, Steve has worked with the Institute of Direct Marketing (IDM) since 2004 on various courses and events and has been invited to speak throughout the world on the subject of digital marketing. He was appointed a Fellow of the IDM in early 2009, making him one of their youngest ever appointments.  He chairs the Digital Council of the IDM.

  New PPA Chief Executive Barry McIlheney, a graduate of Belfast Royal Academy, Trinity College Dublin, and London's City University School of Journalism, has been working in magazines for the last 25 years.

Following a brief spell in local newspapers, Barry started his magazine career on IPC's Melody Maker before being appointed Editor of emap's flagship pop title Smash Hits in 1986. During his time in charge, Smash Hits went on to sell more than one million copies per fortnight.

In 1989, Barry became launch Editor of Empire, still the biggest-selling film magazine in the world. Three years later he was appointed Publishing Director of emap's music and film titles, and in 1994 was promoted to Managing Director of emap metro, the company's London lifestyle division.

In 1999, Barry led the launch of heat magazine, and later that year moved to Paris to oversee the launch of FHM France. He returned to the UK in 2000 as Chief Executive of emap elan, the company's women's magazine division.

In 2003, Barry became Editor-in-Chief of emap consumer media, leading the launch of Zoo Weekly in the UK, Australia, and South Africa. During this time, he also worked alongside Mo Mowlam MP in the bid for a new radio franchise in his native Belfast.

Barry left emap in 2007, and since that point has been working as a writer and consultant, working for magazines and companies such as Radio Times, The Word, Bauer Consumer Media, Haymarket Network, Sport Media Group, Attic Media Network, and John Brown Media. He was recently appointed a Fellow in the Creative Arts at Queen's University Belfast, and is also a visiting lecturer in magazines at the University of Lincoln.

He lives in North London with his wife, journalist Lola Borg, and their two teenage children. Away from work, he enjoys going to football, watching TV, reading books and magazines, seeing movies and plays, listening to music, and walking his dog.

  Andrew Mercer took over as Chief Executive Officer of the East of England Agricultural Society, who own the Exec Peterborough venue, in January 2001. He graduated from Oxford University in Agriculture and Forestry in 1982. He then joined Dalgety Agriculture and worked in a variety of positions, including marketing, and finally as Company Secretary to a liquid fertiliser subsidiary. After three years, he joined his family business and spent fifteen years developing a range of enterprises in a wide variety of industries, including leisure and hospitality, warehouse and distribution, commercial property, retail shops and farming.  At East of England, Andrew has launched several consumer shows and worked closely with media owners and event organisers to grow their events.

Andrew is married with two children. He enjoys epic walks with his dogs, gardening, fishing and shooting.

 

  Jenny Moseley is an internationally-experienced expert in data protection and direct marketing. She was European Circulation Director at National Geographic Society before starting two businesses, Jenny Moseley Marketing and Opt-4.

Jenny consults for some of the largest publishers in Europe and beyond, in multi-channel subscription marketing, both acquisition and renewal, as well as in affinity and online marketing, international and back end database and fulfilment.

Jenny and her co-director, Rosemary Smith, founded Opt-4 five years ago to help businesses comply with the privacy regulations, to maximise revenues and to give practical positive commercial indicators to support board investment in systems and people.

Jenny is former chair of the UK Direct Marketing Association and a former Vice Chair of FEDMA in Europe.

  Chris Parsons is a founding partner of Q5 and a senior organisation design and development professional. He has over 18 years experience helping clients deliver significant organisational change. Operating at senior levels, Chris has worked across media focusing on organisation design, performance improvement and cultural engagement. In recent years, Chris’ media experience has included work with the BBC, Channel 4, Guardian News and Media, IPC Media, Lovefilm and Virgin Media. Throughout his career, Chris has worked closely with his clients to improve the effectiveness of their operations in all areas. He firmly believes that organisations can significantly improve what they do through the alignment of their structures, their processes and their people resources to their strategy. Chris has a degree in Business Economics and Organisational Studies from Reading University. He has contributed to numerous publications regarding organisational performance improvement. Q5 are a specialist organisation design and development consultancy, that focus on helping organisations be the best that they can be. They have significant media experience across print, digital and broadcast.

Phil Redwood is Research Director of Fusion Communications

  Fiona Ryder has over 20 years experience in the media, film, TV and technology sectors.

An innovative former commercials producer, she established her first DOOH company in 1994, which pioneered the use of big screen advertising at live music and sports events. In 1999 she founded her award winning company, Cube Music, which rapidly became a leading content and signage provider in the market, winning major accounts and rollouts for retailers including Topshop, Topman, Toni & Guy, Burberry, Etam, Tammy and World Duty Free.
In 2008 she co-founded StreamExchange which produces professional quality video content and delivers cross platform channel creation solutions to the business, retail and professional content industries.

Fiona specialises in helping clients realise the value of content and audiences using multiple technologies - web, digital signage and mobile. She is a passionate evangelist of social and new media and has a comprehensive knowledge of the technologies needed to deploy successful branded rich media solutions on a cross platform basis. She is a guest lecturer at Nottingham Trent University (MA Media) and an associate of the Imperative Group. She regularly consults on the use of emerging technologies for brand communication and marketing.

Fiona studied Film and Photographic Arts at the University of Westminster (BA Hons) and is a Board Director of a number of companies, both in the UK and in Canada.

Mark Stubbs. Founder CEO, Pixel-Mags. Mr Stubbs has over 10 years of entrepreneurial, internet and design industry experience. His commercial experience began at Lego Denmark, where he was responsible for designing, developing and bringing to market Lego products. He continued to gain knowledge and experience within the design industry at several London and Europe based design consultancy firms, working on some of the world’s leading products. He founded Plugin in 2003, which is at the forefront of technology, an innovative forward thinking design consultancy, boasting clients such as, Bentley, Aston Martin and Bugatti. Today Plugin continues to play a major role in shaping vehicles of the future. In 2005 Mr Stubbs founded 3six0, which is one of the largest royalty free HDRI libraries in the world. Mr Stubbs is a futurist an innovator and a visionary. He holds a Master of Design degree in Automotive design from the university of Coventry, England. Mr Stubbs currently lives in England.

  Chris Talintyre is Head of Digital at Factory Media
 

  Duncan Tickell, MD Magicalia, one of the UK's leading, independent specialist cross-media publishers. Magicalia are pioneers in integrating content, community and commerce and publish magazines and websites in the parenting and outdoors sectors. They also offer contract publishing and eCommerce solutions. Originally a digital only business Magicalia has acquired magazines in recent years to create a highly calibrated cross-media strategy that accelerates the growth and monetisation of their digital portfolio using print. Prior to joining Magicalia in 2008 Duncan held board positions at VNU and Dennis Publishing in group publishing roles with full responsibility for his print and digital brands. Duncan has sat on the board of the Association of Online Publishers and chaired its B2B research committee between 2006-2008.

  Louise White is group marketing director at Incisive Media and has been with the company in various senior marketing positions for the past 7 years. Incisive Media is a business intelligence provider with a portfolio of digital, data, print and face-to-face products that serve the global financial and professional services markets.

She has overall responsibility for the company's centralised marketing function, including the telesales, renewals, customer service, list research, audience development, product and event marketing teams. The international team is responsible for delivering 30% of company revenues and manages a portfolio of over 100 B2B magazines, newsletters and online products and 600+ events in the risk management, capital markets, insurance, investment, IT, legal and private equity markets.

Louise is vice chair of the UK Specialist Information Publishers Association and sits on the IDM Digital Council. Previously she has been chairman of the PPAi (Periodic Publishers Association Interactive) and an AOP (Association of Online Publishers) board member. She is a regular speaker at events. Before finding her natural home in B2B media, she worked at Pearson Education for 3 years as a books marketer.

Louise’s LinkedIn profile: http://uk.linkedin.com/in/louisewhite

Follow Louise on Twitter: http://twitter.com/louisecwhite

Watch this space for more speaker announcements.

Round table facilitators

See conference programme for full round table topic listing.

Jim Bilton is the MD of Wessenden Marketing and Brandlab researchWessenden Marketing was established in 1992 and it operates in four main areas.
• newsletter/report publishing
• consultancy
• project management & interim management
• seminars/workshops/training.

Brandlab is a consumer research company which concentrates on the “buying decision” and the motivations that lie behind the purchase, looking at the product’s brand values and the shopping environment in-store where the purchase is actually made.

Mark Bishop is founding partner of Mark Bishop Associates LLP, a boutique corporate finance and consultancy partnership that helps the principals of media businesses realise or add value, by helping them sell assets or share capital, develop new products, enter new markets and increase profits

David Bostock, Media Consultant. An experienced publisher and people development expert possessing a successful track record developing both media business and its staff, David has successfully published and launched print, digital, and event businesses in some of the UK and Australia’s principal consumer magazine segments: men, music, youth, and women.

  Kimberley Davies-Phippen has been an exhibition organiser & conference producer for the past 18 years, during which time she has gained extensive experience across a wide range of industries in Europe, working with leading event brands and organisers such as Reed Exhibitions, Advanstar, VNU Exhibitions Europe, Mack Brooks & easyFairs.

Kimberley runs her own events consultancy, where research lies at the heart of what she does, as she knows from hard-earned experience how important customer knowledge and satisfaction is to the success of any event.

She consults on a wide range of projects, helping organisers to get closer to their markets, improve their business performance and launch profitable new events. She also creates compelling conference programmes and designs innovative event formats, helping to create ‘must-attend’ events which the target audience simply can’t afford to miss.
 

Michelle Godwin joined Incisive Media nearly 3 years ago as Head of Product and Delegate Sales Global. She currently looks after a team of 37 sales people who sell subscriptions, site licences and delegate sales

  Liz Mortley has over sixteen years experience of circulation and trade marketing in the magazine industry. Liz's career began at Frontline Ltd, where she held a number of roles working with both wholesalers and Publishers including BBC and emap, giving her a wide range of experience of all aspects of magazine distribution. Most recently Liz held the position of Circulation and Trade Marketing Director, establishing and delivering Bauer Media's retail strategy and managing and coaching the Bauer Media circulation and trade marketing team. During her time at Bauer Media Liz was responsible for the news-trade launches of some of the UK’s most influential and successful titles, including Heat, Closer and Grazia. Liz now runs her own consultancy supporting clients in recruitment, training, coaching and magazine circulation and retail marketing.

Dan Thornton spent just over seven years working at Bauer Media (formerly Emap) on a range of digital products as a journalist and web producer.He joined Absolute Radio in 2009 as the first Digital Marketing Manager, and is responsible for Search Engine Optimisation (Paid and Natural), Social Media, and Mobile Development.

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Conference delegates registration from 8am with preview of exhibition from 8.30am.  Conference closes 5.30pm followed by networking drinks reception.

Greenwoods - Specialist Media Lawyers

Greenwoods are hosting a table in the conference and are on hand throughout the day to offer advice on all aspects of media law.

Darren Morgan

Darren joined Greenwoods in August 2003 from a major national firm based in Birmingham.

Darren frequently advises a range of blue chip clients on the full range of commercial disputes.

Darren has been on secondment with a FTSE listed company and having been in the client’s shoes has obtained an invaluable insight into the importance of delivering a quality but proportionate legal service every time. In recent editions of The Legal 500, clients describe Darren as "a first choice for many clients", “excellent”, “surpassing expectations" and one client said that he "has actually earned us money and profit with his advice, guidance and expertise".
In the media sector Darren acts for some of the best known names in the region and he and his team provide advice on
• Defamation and pre-publication issues
• Disputes arising out of commercial contracts including particularly advertising terms, licensing agreements, freelance contracts, event organization and share and asset purchase agreements.
• The termination of unprofitable commercial contracts.
• Complaints to ASA and PCC.

Alastair Gunn

Alastair joined Greenwoods in 2001 qualifying into the Company & Commercial Law Department in March 2003. Alastair advises clients in relation to corporate transactions and commercial contracts.
He has a particular interest in cross-border transactions.
He has a wealth of experience of advising media sector clients in relation to commercial contracts including advising in relation to licensing of publication of magazine titles, promotion agreements, terms and conditions and agreements for the supply of goods and services and a variety of other commercial agreements.
Alastair has built up a strong reputation with clients praising him for his personable, pragmatic approach and commitment to delivering on clients' objectives.

 

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