Rory Brown Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

London, Gb

Realfin are pioneers in commercial property and infrastructure data. Realfin’s platform is built on 20+ years of real-estate fund research: its foundation is the world’s first dataset of real-estate funds, investors and assets. Today, we use cutting-edge data acquisition and technology, to deliver accurate and actionable insight to demanding, data-driven professionals.

Greenwich, Ct, Us

Investor in and adviser to various scale up businesses including Round Corner Brewing, Filament Syfter, Skittle Media & the World Experience Organisation (WXO).

London, England, Gb

Co-founded and led the business that became AgriBriefing. Originally a start-up focusing on media strategy (TheMediaBriefing) the business acquired Farmers Guardian and Pulse (a primary healthcare magazine) in a private equity supported MBI in 2012 before strategically focusing on agri and food commodities and moving up the value chain.AgriBriefing's growth was supported by 3 cycles of investment (Kester Capital, Lyceum/Horizon Capital and Ares Management) before a highly successful exit in 2023 to the Five Arrows / Synova backed Mintec - since re-branded as Expana Markets.At exit the business was the world's leading price reporting agency (PRA), forecasting and market data specialist for the agri-food industry with over 4,000 proprietary pricing benchmarks covering grains, oilseeds, proteins, soft commodities and nutritional additives for animal feed. Our 3,000+ corporate customers included all the major food retailers, processors, traders and restaurant chains with a significant footprint in the financial services and agri-chemical industries. The business delivered over US$30m Annual Recurring Revenues (ARR) and hosted a global conference series for business leaders within our sector.Over the course of 12 years we made 8 acquisitions (Farmers Guardian, LAMMA, Pulse, Agrimoney, Feedinfo, Urner Barry, Stratégie Grains, Tropical Research Services) to build a global group with operations in the UK, France, the US, South America, West Africa and India.

SIPA is the international trade association dedicated to advancing the interests of publishers and media companies serving the needs of specialist niche communities.

London, England, Gb

Divisional Managing Director at Incisive responsible for a range of print, online, conference and exhibition brands including Search Engine Strategies, Search Engine Watch, ClickZ, the Online Information Show and the ePublishing Innovation Forum. The interactive marketing and information division was primarily based in the US but ran operations and events around the globe.

London, England, Gb

Ran the central marketing function for all divisions of Incisive Media. A team of 70 in London, New York and Hong Kong covering paid subscriptions; conferences and training; product sales; digital services; books; database & CRM; corporate branding; customer success and operations.

Marketing Director for subscription products and events internationally. The company was publisher of the eponymous Risk and Waters magazines + many associated brands in the investment banking, derivatives, hedge funds, commodity risk and fintech sectors. Risk Waters was acquired by Incisive Media in 2003 and I became Marketing Director for the combined group.

Dubai Media City, Dubai, Ae

Head of Marketing for Emap Business International. Concentrated on the marketing for MEED - the Middle East Economic Digest. Worked on the launch of the first MEED+ digital intelligence & tenders information platform.

London, Gb

Ran all direct marketing activities for subscriptions, conferences, exhibitions, books and research activity. The company operated as a price reporting agency and premium data provider in the financial and commodity sectors globally, was bought by Euromoney and is now owned by Astorg (rebranded under the FastMarkets banner).

Ba, Geography

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