Jamie Bill: Publisher, GQ

Andy Cowles: Editorial Director, IPC Media

Charlotte Stockting: Publishing Director, Hello!

Andrew Franklin: Managing Director, Profile Books

Helen Fraser: Managing Director, Penguin Books

Sam Husain: Chief Executive, Foyles

Jamie Bill is one of the Publishing Directors at Condé Nast where he has direct responsibility for GQ, GQ Style and Wired. He began his publishing career at the National Magazine Company where he worked on Harpers & Queen and the launch of Country Living.

After spending two years at Hearst in New York he returned to launch Esquire magazine and subsequently became a director of the company and publisher of Harpers & Queen. He left to join Condé Nast Traveller and has been at GQ for the past five years.

Andy Cowles was appointed editorial development director for IPC Media in 2007. He is responsible for the continual evolution of IPC’s key brands, in both print and digital. Andy joined the company in 2003 as creative director, where he was instrumental in the launch of IPC’s new mass market women’s weeklies, Pick Me Up and Look.

Prior to moving back to the UK to join IPC, Andy spent three years in New York, firstly as Creative Director at Conde Nast’s Mademoiselle, and then as Art Director of Rolling Stone. He first established his reputation as one of the UK's most dynamic creative directors through his work on a series of award winning launches for emap, including Q, Mojo and Empire.

Charlotte started with HELLO! magazine in 2000, when she joined 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 become a Sales Executive on Country Homes & Interiors magazine – which was the start of her career in magazines, since when she has since worked on 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.

Charlotte 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, she worked as Head of Marketing & Research for Carlton Screen Advertising (part of Carlton Communications) before finally taking up the reigns as Commercial Director of HELLO!

Andrew Franklin set up Profile Books in 1996 after leaving Penguin. At Profile he has set out to publish lively, interesting non-fiction with as much energy and passion as possible. In 2006, Profile was awarded ‘Small Publisher of the Year’ for the third time, the only company to have won three times. The company has enjoyed major success with the publication of Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss, which has sold over three million copies worldwide.

In 2007 Profile acquired Serpent’s Tail, the celebrated indie publisher famous for edgy fiction, noir crime and fiction in translation. Profile is a founder member of The Alliance of Independent Publishers.

Helen Fraser began her publishing career in 1972 at Methuen, and subsequently worked for ten years at Collins, ten years at Reed and has now been at Penguin for almost twelve years, where she is Managing Director.

She began as an Editor for academic books, then worked on non-fiction, literary fiction, and commercial fiction before moving into a management role as Managing Director of Penguin.

Sam Husain was appointed CEO of Foyles in May 2007. He is a Chartered Accountant and has an Open University MBA degree. Sam is an experienced Media Executive and was previously Managing Director of Ascent Media’s UK operations, where he oversaw the integration of a number of post-production and media companies acquired by Ascent Media inc. (formerly Liberty Livewire, owned by Liberty Media in the U.S.). Prior to that, he has held senior executive positions as CFO and CEO in various companies in the broadcast and media sectors.