Mark Carden Email & Phone Number

Executive search, specialising in STM Publishing, Libraries, Higher Education and the companies that serve those sectors.

London, United Kingdom

The Researcher to Reader Conference is the successor event to the annual conferences formerly hosted by the Association of Subscription Agents & Intermediaries (ASA). The Conference aims to continue to be the premier forum for discussion of the international scholarly content supply chain – bringing knowledge from the Researcher to the Reader.

Naughton Consulting is a small privately-owned consulting business which provides advice, implementation and recruitment services to corporate and public-sector clients in the areas of information technology, personnel, change management, project management, marketing and sales. The company serves a wide range of clients, but has particular expertise in.

Contract business development services across Europe, the Middle East & Africa for content hosting provider Metapress, which is part of EBSCO.

Publishing Technology is a supplier of enterprise applications and online discovery & hosting platforms for global publishers. Hired to lead a sales and marketing turnaround; created new sales approach and delivered 150% of target through major UK and US deals, taking an enterprise-level product ‘across the chasm’.

Ingram is an American physical and digital book distributor with its headquarters in Nashville, TN, and some international import/export activity. Responsible for Ingram Digital (including MyiLibrary and VitalSource) across Europe, the Middle East & Africa, delivering e-book content and services to publishers, bookstores, libraries and end-users. Ingram.

OCLC PICA (now OCLC Europe) is the European division of OCLC Inc, formed through a merger of PICA BV (NL), Fretwell Downing Ltd (UK) and Sisis GmbH (DE). The non-for-profit company provides software, content (including e-books) and services for libraries.Hired as the merged organisation's first Sales Director and led the reorganisation of the company's.

Same as: "Sales Director at OCLC PICA" (OCLC PICA is a subsidiary of OCLC)

I was part of the new management team that turned round Dynix, more than doubling its value, and resulting a in a trade sale to Sirsi Inc in 2005. While running Europe, Middle East & Africa, I grew sales by 40% per year for three years.

Same as "Vice President, EMEA, Dynix" (Dynix and Sirsi merged in 2005)

When Innovative bought SLS, I became the head of Innovative's EMEA business with full P&L responsibility and a focus on Sales. We grew the EMEA share of global new sales from 7% to 25% in 3 years.

SLS was a small UK-based software company that was bought by Innovative Interfaces about 18 months after I joined.

NatWest Life was a new Life company intended to be 'different' from the traditional financial services businesses. I ran the internal consultancy team and the project office.

Strategic Leadership Programme

Attended a one-week executive education course as part of the Dynix executive development programme.

Center For Leadership Development

Attended a one-week executive education course as part of the OCLC leadership development programme.

Ba (Hons), Philosophy, Psychology And Physiology (Ppp)

Attended New College, Oxford University, for a 3-year undergraduate joint honours course in Philosophy and Psychology, graduating with a.

Education record