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Mark Allen Group (MAG) is one the UK’s leading independent media and event companies. MAG employs 450 people across it’s portfolio of more than 100 brands, including Farmers Weekly, The Engineer, HR Magazine and British Journal of Nursing. Annually the business will organise 250 events across the world.

The UK's leading farming magazine brings you all the news, reviews and actionable content you need to stay up to date agriculture in modern Britain. Whether a smallholder, farm related business or large mass-producing farm, Farmers Weekly has everything you need to stay in the know.

Indie publishers of journalism, podcasts, films, a biannual magazine and the annual Festival of Place on making places. The Developer connects developers, investors and architects with local authorities and landowners to deliver large-scale urban real-estate developments worth living in; places where people thrive. The Developer and its major event.

Ocean is a Private Equity backed media provider serving specialist communities in high-value B2B markets. Ocean’s portfolio includes products in three groups: Exhibitions, Conferences & Awards, and Media & Data. As COO was a director and member of the board. Responsible for the P&L of the entire business, including M&A, driving organic sales growth, margin.

Retail Week operates in print, online, and over half the business in live events. The Events business is the fastest growing area of the brand and delivers £6m per annum through two large scale events and sector awards and conferences. Overhauled strategy, product positioning, routes to market, and customer experiences to reverse the decline and deliver.

• C5 ran 80 conferences annually around the globe, attended by over 3,000 delegates from the world’s leading organisations, including PwC, EY, KPMG, 85% of FTSE 100 companies, and the Magic Circle Law firms.
• Accountable for a £5m business, the management of 70+ staff, and execution of the overall strategy.
• Turned around loss making business in first year followed by £500k+ EBITDA in my first full year.
• Spearheaded the geo-expansion of C5 with successful launches in Africa… Show more C5 ran 80 conferences annually around the globe, attended by over 3,000 delegates from the world’s leading organisations, including PwC.
• Spearheaded the geo-expansion of C5 with successful launches in Africa, Australia and the USA.
• Created over 50 new events across multiple regions, including new formats, and C5’s first ever training and awards programmes.

Responsible for the Schools Services (Events, Consultancy, Assessments and Publications) and shared responsibility for organisation development and overall strategy. The Education Division consisted of 11 legal entities including VT Four S Ltd.Leadership of four business units with a combined annual turnover of £9M in 2011, and over 40 staff across four.

Leadership and delivery of marketing across the entire business, with overall responsibility for the company’s strategic positioning, company branding, website, PR, training & events, external and internal communications.VT Four S Ltd is a JV between VT Group plc and Surrey County Council

I began my career at informa Telecoms and Media (one of the world’s largest B2B publishers, and event organisers) as a Sales Executive, and rose to be a member of the Operational Board within 5 years. As a member of Operational Board, I had input in to group strategy: 260 staff & £44M turnover.

Cim Professional Post-Graduate Diploma

Ba Hons Fine Art

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