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Ben Hammersley is Editor at Large of Conde Nast’s Wired UK magazine, founder and principal of Dangerous Precedent Ltd, a digital media design practice. Early in his career he specialised in technology journalism.
He previously worked as the first internet reporter for The Times, where he was shortlisted for one of the British Press Awards. Additionally he has worked as a reporter for the BBC, The Guardian and the UK arm of MSN and is also a freelance photographer.
Ben often reported from Iran, Afghanistan, Beirut and the Philippines. After travelling undercover to interview the Burmese opposition leader and Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, he moved toward war correspondence and foreign reporting.
In April 2008, Ben announced the founding of a company named Dangerous Precedent. He has also written four books on XML, digital publishing, and web technologies. The debut of Budding, the new content management system for writers, authors, and publishers, will be made at Publishing Innovation Conference 2010.
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Mark Beilby is active in a number of roles, including: Co-founder and Chairman of award winning technology company Apollo Media, Visiting Fellow in Media Finance at The Cass Business School (City University), Board Director of Cavendish International, Advisory Partner for Media (Partner Capital), and co-founder of social community company Tourdates.
Previously Mark worked as a researcher, writer and executive producer for a number of production companies, including White City Films and Video Arts.
Mark then joined the world of investment banking, joining first Morgan Stanley as a Corporate Finance Analyst before moving to UBS, JP Morgan, Deutsche Bank and finally Dresdner Bank, where he was Capital Markets' Managing Director and Head of European Media until 2008. He was rated Number 1 European Media Analyst for nine years by Institutional Investor magazine and Reuters' surveys.
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Nicholas Brett joined BBC Magazines in 1988 as the 11th Editor of Radio Times. He joined from The Times, where he was Features Editor. He became Editorial Director of BBC Magazines in 1991, winning BSME Editor of the Year in 1993 and PPA Editor of the Year in 1996.
In 2001 he became Deputy Managing Director of BBC Magazines, when magazines were brought back together into one division, and in 2006 he took on the additional responsibility of Group Editorial Director for BBC Magazines in London, Bristol and Mumbai.
He is Chairman of the Periodicals Training Council and Visiting Professor of Journalism at Cardiff University. He is also a Director of Lonely Planet.
In 2006 he was presented with BSME’s lifetime achievement award – The Mark Boxer Award – for his outstanding editorial contribution to magazines in this country. In 2007 he gained the PPA’s Chairman’s Award for his services to training and development in the UK magazines industry.
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Fiona Dent is Managing Director of IPC Connect, the mass market women's division of IPC Media. The Connect portfolio contains some of the most famous media brands in the UK, including Look, Now, Chat, Woman, www.goodtoknow.co.uk, What's on TV, TV Times and TV & Satellite Week.
Fiona joined IPC in 1992, where she has held a number of senior marketing and publishing roles. From 2003 to 2006, she was Publishing Director of Country Life and Horse & Hound. In January 2006 Fiona was appointed Publishing Director of Wallpaper*, the internationally-renowned design, interiors and lifestyle magazine, where she led the brand to a record performance during its tenth anniversary year, and developed the highly successful www.wallpaper.com.
Fiona was promoted to the board in May 2007, as Managing Director of IPC TX, IPC's market-leading TV weeklies group, and was named Managing Director of IPC Connect in February 2009.
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Kurt Edwards is the Digital Commercial Director at Future Publishing, the specialist magazine publisher and home to some 80 brands. Magazine titles ranging from Total Film, T3 and Triathlon Plus to online brands such as Gamesradar and Bikeradar. His role is to monetise all of Future’s digital properties from advertising to commercial partnerships and e-commerce. Additionally, Kurt is Chairperson of the Association of Online Publishers' Commercial Group, whose members include ITV, Financial Times and Reuters, with a view to championing common interests and best practice across the industry.
Previously Kurt was Head of Digital Sales for Bauer Media, a position he held for three years, looking after the monetisation of such digital brands as Grazia, FHM and Heatworld across both mobile and digital platforms. Before that he was Commercial Director for Kiss Radio.
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Duncan Campbell is Associate Director of Journal Digital Licensing at Wiley-Blackwell, the scientific, technical, medical and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons. He is responsible for managing Wiley-Blackwell’s aggregator, document delivery and abstracting and indexing relationships.
Duncan has a PhD in English Literature from the University of Wales, and over ten years’ experience in academic publishing in both print editorial and digital product management, most recently with ProQuest. He is also a Non-Executive Director of Seren Books (Poetry Wales Press).
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Chris Meade is Director of if:book, a think and do tank exploring the future of the book in the digital world. He has been Director of Booktrust and The Poetry Society, where he established the Poetry Cafe. He has an MA in Creative Writing & New Media from De Montfort University. Ηis digital novella In Search of Lost Tim was described by The Independent on Sunday as "just possibly the future of fiction."
if:book's recent activities include research for Arts Council England on digital possibilities for literature organisations; guest editing the Bookseller's Digital Focus section; writing about Unlibraries for a DCMS report; running workshops for schools on HOTBOOK, a new resource for secondary schools on the past, present and future of reading.
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Dr. Frances Pinter is the Publisher at Bloomsbury Academic, the first major commercial publishing imprint committed to placing all works online, free of charge, using Creative Commons licensing.
Frances also works in the area of Intellectual Property Rights and has been a consultant to Creative Commons. She ran an IDRC (International Development Research Centre, Canada) project looking at applying flexible licensing approaches to digital content, especially for the benefit of developing countries.
She was previously Publishing Director for the Soros Foundation Network where she established the Centre for Publishing Development in Budapest and founded EIFL (Electronic Information for Libraries) the world’s largest consortium of libraries, now covering 50 countries.
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Henry Volans is Head of Faber Digital, a new division at Faber, whose purpose is to develop commercial digital projects.
His first job in publishing was at Canongate in Edinburgh. He then moved to Faber’s editorial department, initially in the role of non-fiction Editor. He subsequently became responsible for audio book and e-book publishing.
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