David Pead Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

London, England, United Kingdom

Responsible for the product development and publishing operations for We Do The Words Ltd - a company specialising in providing marketing services and editorial products for businesses

Led the launch of a global festival of architrecture that will be held in Barcelona in October 2008. At the heart of the festival is a set of awards where the world's best completed buildings compete in front of an international judging panel led by Lord Norman Foster. More than 700 entries have been attracted from leading architectural practices in 72 countries.

Led launch of global conference and awards for Board-level retailers. Two editions have now been held in Barcelona (in March 2007 and April 2008), both attracting more than 1,000 delegates from 52 countries.

P&L responsibility for the Engineering Group of Emap Construct - a £8 million turnover business with 38 staff comprising a weekly magazine, two monthly titles, an exhibition, three major Awards, 18 conferences annually and numerous supplements and special projects.

P&L responsibility for the MachPress division - a £4 million turnover business with 25 staff comprising a two- weekly production engineering magazine, and its associated weekly classified publication, buyers guides, websites and supply chain database.

P&L responsibility for the Emap Comms Group - a £7 million turnover business comprising four internationally distributed magazines, an exhibition, awards, conferences and supplements. Direct responsibility for 30 staff. Sales responsibility for Total Telecom, EMAP’s internet site for the telecommunications industry (£1 million turnover, 12 staff, 135,000 registered users and 1.5 million page impressions a month)

P&L responsibility for Business Travel World - a £1.1 million turnover business comprising a monthly magazine, directories, a conference and awards.

P&L responsibility for Emap Freight - a £5 million turnover business comprising 40 staff, a national weekly magazine, an internationally distributed monthly magazine, a major electronic subscription product, conferences, awards, supplements and directories.

Responsible for all branded development - including electronic information services, conferences, seminars, directory publishing and supplements to the weekly magazine

Responsible for the launch of a weekly business magazine for senior local government politicians and officials in South Africa. This involved the development of a business plan, budgets, sales and marketing systems, distribution channels, office infrastructure, a comprehensive database of readers and the recruitment of 19 staff.

Responsible for all aspects of the editorial content, print and production of the weekly national news magazine and its supplements. As well as leading a redesign of the magazine in June 1994, I subsequently launched a number of new products, including a Who’s Who in Local Government, a book publishing programme in partnership with the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and two immediately profitable Awards schemes - the LGC Local Government Awards for Excellence and the Local Authority Race Awards.