Experience

Biochemical Society

• United Kingdom
• Research Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Associate Director Business Development & Sales

  • Oct 2022 - Present



Microbiology Society

• United Kingdom
• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Head of Business Development & Sales

  • Jan 2018 - Sep 2022

  A diverse and challenging role requiring strategic and operational leadership to grow the Society’s portfolio, my key priorities are to develop and diversify our business channels in order to maintain the leading edge science output from a not-for-profit, independent society publisher. A diverse and challenging role requiring strategic and operational leadership to grow the Society’s portfolio, my key priorities are to develop and diversify our business channels in order to maintain the leading edge science output from a not-for-profit, independent society publisher.



HighWire Press

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Business Development Manager

  • Feb 2016 - Dec 2017

  I am joining a talented company who are passionate about building great and customisable digital solutions for publishers and I look forward to building new and extending existing collaborations with publishers, societies, aggregators and other organisations operating in the scholarly communications arena. I am joining a talented company who are passionate about building great and customisable digital solutions for publishers and I look forward to building new and extending existing collaborations with publishers, societies, aggregators and other organisations operating in the scholarly communications arena.



Maney Publishing

• United Kingdom
• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Executive Publisher

  • Apr 2009 - Sep 2015

  Acquisitions: acquired new journals across STM and HSS subjects in which the company is active, mainly through new society partnerships, but also through purchase of titles and lists (e.g. Left Coast Press journals). Strategic list development: selecting and assessing new business opportunities for compatibility with Maney’s list and growth objectives. Signing new journals in new and established subject areas. Setting targets and revenue growth, implementing plans and mentoring publishing team members to achieve list developments. New business: I set the company’s open access agenda having introduced and project managed its hybrid OA service, initiated launch of its first gold OA journal and published its green OA policies. Show less



SCI® Where Science Meets Business

• United Kingdom
• Education Administration Programs
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Publications Manager

  • Feb 2008 - Feb 2009

  I was responsible for managing the key business relationships underpinning this membership organisation’s publications. With the publication of four established journals outsourced to Wiley, one new launch journal and book series, and the Society’s magazine published by Ten Alps, I set and monitored KPIs, managed all SLAs with publishing service providers, identified risks associated with SCIs publishing assets and researched and proposed ways to mitigate them. I managed the publications committee and their meetings and all reporting to and from the publishing partners. Show less



Thomson Learning

• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Publisher

  • Dec 2004 - Dec 2007

  I started a new textbook list in Computer Science (and researched launching a new list in Nursing) to augment the existing and successful EMEA college publishing operation. I published first and second year core texts and adapted best-selling US textbooks from a sister company imprint. I started a new textbook list in Computer Science (and researched launching a new list in Nursing) to augment the existing and successful EMEA college publishing operation. I published first and second year core texts and adapted best-selling US textbooks from a sister company imprint.



Wiley

• United States
• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Publisher

  • 1985 - 2004

  Starting within the STM division on the Management & Computing list, I managed a product mix of 30 new books per year and 12 journals (four of which I started-up). I then moved to the Professional & Trade division under direction from the newly acquired Hungry Minds team in the US where I effected the transition of a largely research monograph list to a higher contract professional profile. In 2003, I moved to the newly created UK college division where I published texts across the computing curriculum and helped open export channels to the US. Show less