PPA Board

Charles Reed+

Group Managing Director, William Reed Business Media (Chair)

Charles is group managing director of William Reed Business Media, providers of business information covering the food, drink and hospitality sectors and additionally, since May 2009, pharmaceuticals and cosmetic design. The business, established in 1861, is a fifth generation family-owned company employing 300 people in its head office near Gatwick and a further 50 in Montpellier. William Reed Business Media produces and organises a wide portfolio of market leading magazines, exhibitions, events, data, digital and related activities.

Peter Phippen+

Managing Director, BBC Magazines

Peter is managing director of BBC Magazines and a director of BBC Worldwide, one of the UK’s fastest growing media companies. He is responsible for all BBC Worldwide’s magazine titles, a number of market leading websites and for the global expansion of the business. He is also chairman of BBC Magazines’ joint ventures in India and Australia. Peter is a PPA board member, a director of the International Federation of the Periodical Press (FIPP) and chairman of the FIPP/FAEP Environment Committee. Previously, Peter was president and chief executive of BBC Worldwide Americas, Inc. (BBCWWA), responsible for expanding the company’s range of products in the USA. Peter started his career in magazines with IPC.

Charles Brady

Chief Executive, Wilmington Group

Charles is a solicitor and was a law lecturer before founding, in 1985, the business which is now Central Law Group (CLG). CLG was acquired by Wilmington in June 1999. Wilmington Group is a dynamic and expanding company providing information and training to professional businesses. Charles joined the Wilmington board in November 1999 and was appointed chief executive in February 2002. He is also a member of the Group's nomination committee.

Nicholas Coleridge

Managing Director, Condé Nast UK

Nicholas joined Condé Nast UK in 1989 as editorial director and became managing director of the company in 1991. He has been a vice president of Condé Nast International since 1999. Nicholas has been chairman of PPA and chairman of the British Fashion Council. He was awarded the Mark Boxer Lifetime Achievement Award for Editorial Excellence in 2002 and a CBE in 2009. He has written 12 books, both fiction and non-fiction.

Kevin Costello

Managing Director and Chairman, Haymarket Consumer Media
& Chairman, Haymarket Network

Kevin graduated in 1987 and joined Reed Business Publishing, followed by Bartlett Advertising, where he spent four years in a range of roles including media buying, planning and new business development. He joined Haymarket in January 1994 as business development manager in the B2B Division. After a period running the sales operation across a portfolio of weekly B2B titles he moved into the consumer division. Today, Kevin is managing director and chairman of Haymarket Consumer Media, responsible for consumer magazines and digital assets in a wide range of markets including motoring, classical music, motorsport, football and consumer electronics. He is also chairman of Haymarket Network, one of the top five customer publishing agencies in the UK, with a blue chip client roster on a global stage including Manchester United, The British Army and UEFA. 

Kevin chairs Haymarket’s Australian subsidiary and is responsible for the development of the company’s Indian business. He is chairman of Frontline, the UK’s market-leading sales and marketing magazine distribution company, a non-executive director of Wanderlust Ltd and chairman of the PPA Environment Committee. He is also a trustee of Masterprize, the classical music charity, and a member of the BPI (British Phonographic Industry Ltd).

David Goodchild

Managing Director, H Bauer Publishing

David is managing director of H Bauer Publishing, a UK division of the largest privately owned publisher in Europe. H Bauer publishes some of the country’s biggest selling magazines including TV Choice. David joined Bauer as a graduate in October 1993 and soon became head of the circulation department. He was quickly promoted to publisher of TV Quick and Take a Break before launching TV Choice magazine in 1999. David became managing director in July 2004 and led the acquisition of Emap’s consumer magazines and radio businesses in 2007.

Bernard Gray

Executive Chairman, TSL Education

Bernard has been chief executive and latterly executive chairman of TSL Education since it was acquired by Exponent in 2005. Prior to his current appointment, Bernard was chief executive of CMP Information, the UK media arm of United Business Media, for five years, turning the company's losses into profits of £40 million per year. From 1999-2001, Bernard was strategy director of UBM. He was heavily involved in the proposed Carlton-UBM merger and the subsequent sale of UBM's ITV franchises to Granada for £1.7 billion, as well as overseeing some £1.5 billion of other corporate transactions. Bernard's earlier career involved two years at the Ministry of Defence, where he directed the Strategic Defence Review of 1998, almost ten years as a journalist on the Financial Times Group, including spells as defence correspondent and writing the Lex Column. He started his career with five years in investment banking and capital markets working for Bankers Trust and Chase Manhattan in London and New York. Bernard has also been a non-executive director of Cable & Wireless and Five, the UK broadcaster.

Kevin Hand

Chairman, Hachette Filipacchi UK

Jonathan Hustler

Managing Director, Archant Lifestyle

Johnny has responsibility for Archant’s three magazine businesses. He joined the Archant main board in January 2008, having served as a director of a number of other Archant companies including East Anglian Daily Times Company Limited, Eastern Counties Newspapers and Archant Regional Limited. After graduating from Leeds University, Johnny went to Unilever and started his media career with Anglia Television in 1983, joining the East Anglian Daily Times in 1987. In 1995 he moved to Eastern Counties Newspapers in Norwich as marketing director. He then served in a number of senior commercial roles before founding Archant’s regional magazine business, Archant Life, in 2001. Johnny is a past UK and European director of the International Newspaper Marketing Association and joined the PPA Board in 2008.

Paul Keenan

Chief Executive, Bauer Consumer Media

Paul became chief executive of Emap Consumer Media in 2006, managing the company's magazines, radio and online assets. Following the sale in 2008 of Emap Consumer Media to Bauer Media Group – Europe’s largest privately owned media group - Paul has led the business in the same capacity. Bauer Media is also home (through a joint venture with Channel 4) to four of the UK's top ten music TV channels by reach. Paul has worked in the media industry for over 20 years and has been a board director of PPA since 2002.

Nigel Ludlow

Managing Director, UK, The Economist Group

Nigel is UK managing director of The Economist Group. He joined the marketing team of The Economist in January 1984, subsequently becoming global marketing director and managing director of the Economist Intelligence Unit, before assuming the post of UK managing director in 2008.

Arnaud de Puyfontaine

Chief Executive, The National Magazine Company

Arnaud joined NatMag in 2009 as chief executive. Paris-born Arnaud began his media career at Le Figaro in 1990, occupying various positions including managing director of Le Figaro, and publishing director of the daily newspaper and of the weekly, Le Figaro Économie. He was a member of the team which founded Emap Group in France and was chief executive and chairman of the group from 1998-1999. In 2006, Arnaud became chief executive of Mondadori France and a year later, was appointed president of Group Mondadori France. He left this position in 2008. In October last year, French president, Nicholas Sarkozy, appointed Arnaud as president of the Economic Committee for the French Press Industry.

Chris Spratling

Managing Director, Reader’s Digest UK

Prior to joining Reader’s Digest in February 2008, Chris was sales and marketing director at Future Publishing Limited and a member of Future’s UK Board. He was responsible for successfully driving revenues and building margin and led a number of strategic acquisitions. Chris has extensive experience within the media and publishing sector and has held a number of senior roles within Express Newspapers, The National Magazine Company, The Condé Nast Publications and Haymarket Publishing.

Stevie Spring

Chief Executive, Future

Stevie is chief executive of Future, the UK’s largest licensor and exporter of magazine content. A lawyer by trade, she has spent most of her career in advertising and marketing including periods as managing director of Young & Rubicam and chief executive of Clear Channel. She is a past president of WACL, outgoing Chairman of the Groundwork Federation, sits on the boards of the PPA and Arts & Business and is the first externally appointed chairman of BBC Children in Need.

Charlotte Stockting

Publishing Director, HELLO!

Charlotte joined HELLO! as commercial director, rising to publisher and then publishing director in 2006. She began her career at Saatchi & Saatchi as a media planner buyer, before moving to Country Homes & Interiors as a sales executive - the start of her career in magazines. She has since worked on a number of notable magazines including Vogue, Tatler, Vanity Fair, House & Garden, World of Interiors, Brides & Setting Up Home, GQ, Punch and Auto Express, before becoming publisher of ELLE and ELLE Decoration in the early 1990s. She has also worked as UK marketing manager for the watch brand TAGHeuer, as well as Maurice Lacroix and Oris. After completing a MA in Marketing, Charlotte worked as head of marketing and research for Carlton Screen Advertising (part of Carlton Communications) before finally taking up the reigns as commercial director of HELLO! in 2000.

James Tye

Chief Executive, Dennis Publishing

James joined Dennis Publishing in October 1992 and spent six years on the editorial teams of various titles, including the editorship of market-leading PC Pro. In 1998, he became a publisher. He joined the executive board in 2000 as operations director and became divisional managing director for Dennis’s Technology Division in 2004. In the same year he oversaw the launch of the Dennis Gambling Division. He became chief executive of Dennis Publishing Ltd in January 2006. James is also a director of Dovetail Ltd.

Evelyn Webster

Chief Executive, IPC Media

Appointed chief executive of IPC Media in January 2009, Evelyn joined IPC in 1992 as a graduate trainee. After roles in circulation , marketing and publishing, she was promoted to the IPC board in 2003 as managing director of Inspire. In March 2004, Evelyn became managing director of IPC Connect, during which time she launched three of the most successful new brands of the past decade: Look, Pick Me Up and www.goodtoknow.co.uk.

Tim Weller

Group Chief Executive and Founder, Incisive Media

Tim is group chief executive and founder of Incisive Media, a leading B2B information provider serving the financial and professional services markets. Tim floated Incisive Media on the main market of the London Stock Exchange in December 2000 and then took the company private again in December 2006 in a £275 million deal backed by private equity house Apax. Tim is non-executive chairman of The Polestar Group and RDF Media. He is a recipient of The Marcus Morris Award and was Ernst and Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year 2001.

James Buchanan

James Buchanan started AIM Publications in 1979 as a media sales agency mostly representing magazines, and moved into publishing his own titles in 1982. The titles included What Diet?, The AIM Puzzle Group, You & Your Wedding and Bride & Groom. In Dec 2000, he sold AIM to NatMags, and left Nat Mags in Oct 2003. In 1996 he started Noble House Media (NHM) which launched the monthly consumer title Mobile Choice and then in 2000 Mobile, the weekly trade title. Both magazines have highly successful websites and awards events. He is currently non-exec Chairman of NHM. Between AIM (two) and NHM (four), his companies have picked up six PPA Awards for Publisher and/or Publishing Company of the year.

Clive Foskett

Chief Executive, Signature Publishing & Chairman, IPAC

Clive is a publishing entrepreneur with over 30 years’ extensive senior management experience in running highly successful publishing businesses, in both consumer and business media. In 2005, as chief executive and main shareholder, he established Signature Publishing Limited, now an expanding and successful independent consumer magazine publishing company with over ten titles and websites. Since its launch, the company has won or been short-listed for 15 awards. Previously, having grown the business to be a Top 20 consumer publisher, Clive led the successful MBO of SPL Publishing, leading to its highly profitable sale in 2004. Clive is a liveryman of The Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers, a trustee of the charity StarAngel and chairman of the PPA Independent Publishers Advisory Council (IPAC).

John Mullins

Chairman, MPI