HYVE GROUP - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Non - Executive Director
- Board Member of the Scottish Ballet
- CEO of Josh Wood Colour Ltd
Anna was appointed as a Non-Executive Director of the Group on 1 March 2022. She is Chair of Hyve's ESG Committee and a member of the Remuneration and Audit Committees.
Anna has a leadership and management background spanning media, retail, news and technology. Anna is currently the CEO of Josh Wood Colour Ltd, a founder-led fast growing home hair colour brand. Anna was previously Chief Customer Officer and, latterly, interim CEO at the Guardian Media Group. Prior to that, Anna served as Global Consumer Marketing Director at YouTube, and also held marketing roles at ITV and MTV among others.
Anna has been a board member of the Scottish Ballet since 2017 and also sits on the board for Which?, the charity DocSociety, and the visual AI company Picasso Labs.
Anna is passionate about brand and putting the customer at the heart of the business.
Job Titles:
- Chief Transition and Integration Officer
Based in our New York office, Gordon supports the delivery of Hyve's ambitious strategy through seamless integration of our acquisitions, including the incredible Shoptalk and Groceryshop events and Meetups, as well as the recently acquired 121 Group.
Gordon has been with Hyve since February 2017 and was Regional Director for the Group's Asia division until 2021. He has over 20 years of senior leadership experience in major business media companies including UBM (now Informa Markets) where he led their highly successfully business in Amsterdam for eight years. Prior to Hyve, Gordon worked with Mark Shashoua on the acclaimed transformation of Emap connect into i2i Events Group, where he focused on creating the critical international dimension to the business that drove much of i2i's growth. Gordon has worked extensively in China, India, Latin America, Middle East, USA and Europe.
Job Titles:
- Chief Information Officer
- Member of the Group Management Team
Grant leads Hyve's global technology team and works with all areas of the business to ensure technology is helping to drive our vision and strategy. Grant joined Hyve in February 2022 as a Tech Advisor, bringing over 25 years of experience in technology roles across various sectors, before taking on the role of CIO in June 2022. He has worked on a number of key acquisitions and disposals for Hyve, including the complex separation of the Russian business, and has also been instrumental in developing strategic partnerships with leading technology providers to support our event portfolios.
Prior to joining Hyve, Grant led technology for the consumer media division of DMGT, where he was responsible for managing global technology operations and delivery. Before that, Grant held roles in various tech start-ups, retail and media, including Haymarket Publishing where he managed digital media operations. Grant has wide experience at building and leading diverse technology teams, M&A tech integration and delivering robust information security improvement programmes.
Helen is responsible for leading our global legal team and for overseeing our worldwide legal affairs including corporate, commercial, litigation, and intellectual property matters. She joined in 2019 from ‘Big Four' consulting firm EY, having previously been Acting General Counsel for FTSE250 venture capital investor IP Group plc. Helen read Law at Newcastle University and is qualified to practice law in England and Wales.
Helen is an M&A and investment specialist corporate lawyer, with a breadth of experience advising UK and international boards and companies. Helen's career to date has seen her work in the UK, US and Australia advising entrepreneurial businesses and delivering legal support to clients, organisations and internal stakeholders in challenging and fast-paced environments.
Helen is passionate about the practice of law and making law accessible as a career to everyone.
Job Titles:
- Group Finance Director
- Member of the Group Management Team
James joined Hyve in February 2016 and worked in a number of roles within the Group Finance team prior to being appointed as Group Finance Director in October 2020. James leads our global finance teams and is responsible for Hyve's Group-wide finance activities, including financial reporting, commercial finance, tax, treasury and procurement. During his time at Hyve James has played a key role in the Group's evolution, overseeing the financial elements of the Group's M&A activity and its TAG transformation programme.
James qualified as a chartered accountant at Deloitte where he worked in the audit practice from 2009 to 2014. While at Deloitte James managed the audit engagement for a number of organisations within the events sector, including Informa and ITE. Prior to joining Hyve James spent 18 months at The Football Association within the Group finance team.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Group Management Team
- Group Strategy Director
Jessica joined Hyve in June 2021, working in both Divisional strategy and Group transaction support before being appointed as the Group Strategy Director in February 2022. Jessica leads the Group Strategy function and is responsible for the implementation of Hyve's overarching strategic goals, including the formulation of M&A, product and go-to-market strategies across the business, and ensuring alignment across the Group's key strategic areas.
Prior to Hyve, Jessica spent six years in strategy consulting where she gained experience navigating complex strategic issues and developing impactful and actionable recommendations for organisations across industries, with a focus on the TMT sector. Most recently, Jessica was an Engagement Manager at LEK, working in both the US and UK. During her time in consulting, Jessica led a broad range of projects including: buy and sell-side diligence, strategic planning, business model development and growth opportunity assessments.
Jessica is passionate about driving meaningful growth and value within a business through collaborative, data driven projects that address rapidly evolving and complex strategic challenges.
As Chief of Staff, Jo is the collaborative partner bringing together all functional areas of the business, and works closely with the Executive Leadership and Group Management teams to align and execute on vision, strategy and operational priorities. In addition, Jo drives the people priorities while leading the evolution of a sustainable and inclusive culture, and is responsible for creating a globally unified workplace culture which supports Hyve in achieving its ambitions and realising its full potential.
Jo joined Hyve in November of 2020, bringing with her 20 years of HR experience. Prior to joining Hyve, Jo held a number of senior and international HR positions in the media industry. Her latest work was providing HR consultancy to DMGT and prior to that she has supported Guardian Media Group, as well as i2i Events Group, where she worked alongside Mark Shashoua and John Gulliver. Most recently though, Jo has been combining her love of travel and food whilst she toured Europe in her converted van.
Jo's passion lies in nurturing a place of work which celebrates and develops the talent that exists within a business.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Chief Finance and Operations Officer
John was appointed as the Company's COO in October 2017. With effect from 1 October 2020 John took up the newly-formed combined role of CFO and COO. He oversaw the rollout of best practice as part of the TAG programme. John also has responsibility for implementing and maintaining our best practice operating model across our global network of exhibitions.
Prior to joining, John held senior financial positions in the media sector, including Interim CFO at Emap/Top Right Group and also Divisional CFO at Ascential, and CFO of i2i Events Group from June 2012 to June 2017, where he worked alongside Mark Shashoua, CEO. Prior to that, John was Finance Director at Precise Media from 2008 to 2010.
John's background in finance and operational transformation, as well as his experience in the events sector, underpins his passion for bringing about positive change and disruption within the industry. John enjoys working in a change-led environment and loves the passion, energy and sense of achievement that occur as the company, and the people working within it, realise their potential.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Divisional Leadership Team
- Managing Director, Retail, Manufacturing
Having held a number of leadership roles since joining Hyve in July 2018, Julie now leads Hyve's Retail, Manufacturing and Engineering division. Julie brings with her 15 years of experience leading businesses predominantly within the Retail space at Ascential and Emap where she delivered significant UK and international growth across various media including digital, sponsorship, awards, conferences, summits, publishing and large scale exhibitions. Most recently Julie lead the transformation of Pure London whilst completing an MBA from Imperial College Business School where she was awarded the prestigious scholarship for ‘most inspiring business leader'. Julie is passionate about UK retail and sits on various industry boards and advisory committees such as the AEO, the NEC, the Association of Suppliers to the British Clothing Industry, the Giftware Association and is a judge for the prestigious UK Drapers awards.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Divisional Leadership Team
- Regional Director Eastern and Southern Europe
- Regional Director of Turkey & Ukraine
Kemal is the Regional Director of Turkey & Ukraine for Hyve Group. Born in Ankara in 1972, Kemal graduated from the Middle East Technical University, Department of Business Administration, and then started his career in 1997 at Procter&Gamble. He assumed various roles in Sales and Marketing before joining BAT as a Commercial Marketing Business Development Manager as of November 2001. After working as the Commercial Marketing Manager of Imperial Tobacco in 2007, Kemal continued his career again at Imperial Tobacco as a Country Manager responsible for the UK, the UAE, Oman and Qatar. After Imperial Tobacco Kemal became General Manager of Herbalife Turkey and in 2018, he joined Hyve Group. Kemal is married and has two children.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Group Management Team
- Group Head of Investor Relations
Marina joined Hyve in October 2021 and is responsible for creating a new Investor Relations function within the Group to lead the engagement between Hyve and its investment community, while educating the market about Hyve's unique proposition, as we recover from COVID-19 and explore opportunities beyond.
Throughout her 20 year career in Investor Relations advisory, Marina created and put into practice numerous strategies to communicate clients' often complex value propositions, across a broad spectrum of sectors and geographies. Marina recently completed a three-year secondment as IR Director for McCarthy and Stone, the largest owner, developer and manager of retirement communities in the UK.
Having advised on over 30 IPOs, raising over US$40bn, Marina has a strong track record of providing counselling on strategic positioning for transactions in Europe and emerging markets.
Marina is passionate about bringing the right people together - be it investors and management teams or IR industry professionals. She is a founder and host of an international peer-to-peer network of senior IR professionals aimed at experience sharing to foster further development of best practice at the time when the IR industry is impacted by complex regulatory changes, the rise of ESG and challenges associated with the pandemic.
Job Titles:
- Chief Executive Officer
- Member of the Board of Directors
Mark was appointed as Chief Executive Officer in September 2016. Mark was previously the CEO of i2i Events Group, the event arm of Ascential plc, where he spent five years leading the internationalisation and diversification of the business.
Mark was one of the founding members of Hyve Group plc, then called ITE Group, in 1991, where he was a senior Director and Board member for eight years. He is also a prominent figure in the international events industry and was recently appointed to the Board of UFI, the Global Association of the Events Industry.
Mark's focus is on evolving the business and working towards achieving its ambition. He spends considerable time alongside regional leaders and event teams, discussing the strategy of each market-leading show and planning for sustainable growth.
Mark is passionate about representing the evolution of customers' behaviours in the events industry and pioneering constant change, while delivering value to shareholders.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Non - Executive Director
Nicholas was appointed a Non-Executive Director of the Group on 1 May 2019 and Chair of the Audit Committee in January 2020. He is also the Senior Independent Director and a member of the Remuneration and Risk Committees.
Nicholas has extensive experience at board level and is currently the Senior Independent Director of both Hollywood Bowl Group plc and Loungers plc and the Chairman of the Giggling Squid restaurant group. He has also held positions as Senior Independent Director of Guardian Media Group plc and Non-Executive Director of Marston's PLC, All3media Limited, Eaton Gate Gaming Limited and Chichester Festival Theatre. Nicholas was previously the Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the David Lloyd Leisure Group, Group Finance Director of National Car Parks and Chief Financial Officer of both the Laurel Pub Company and Freeserve PLC. He is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and has an MA in economics from Cambridge University.
Nicholas has significant experience with companies undergoing operating model and cultural change.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Group Management Team
- Group Communications & ESG Director
Having supported Hyve on a consultancy basis for a number of years, Nikki was appointed Group Communications and ESG Director in October 2021. Nikki's background lies predominantly in the field of internal communication and colleague engagement, demonstrating Hyve's prioritisation of its people, and its commitment to creating a supportive and positive culture.
Nikki is also responsible for Hyve's environment, social and governance strategy, as the Group looks to take a more proactive role in addressing sustainability not just within the events sector, but also across those sectors which its event brands support.
Nikki is hugely passionate about inclusion and creating opportunities from people of all backgrounds to succeed, as well as an open and collaborative culture where every colleague can be themselves and feel valued.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Non - Executive Director
Rachel was appointed as a Non-Executive Director of the Group on 1 March 2022. She is Chair of Hyve's Remuneration Committee and a member of the Risk and Audit Committees.
Rachel has nearly 30 years of finance and operational management experience. Rachel is currently a Non-Executive Director of the business-critical services and software provider, Marlowe plc, where she is also Chair of the Audit Committee, a Non-Executive Director of housing developer and manager, Watkin Jones plc, where she is also a member of the Audit, Remuneration and Nomination Committees, and a Non-Executive Director of Mango Publishing Group, an innovative independent publisher based in Florida, USA. From July 2020 to October 2021 Rachel was the Chief Financial Officer at Future plc. Prior to that she was Chief Financial Officer at TI Media Limited and has held a number of senior financial, operational and board level roles at Trinity Mirror (now Reach) Regionals, Local World Limited, Northcliffe Media Limited and Boots the Chemist where she was Head of Risk Management.
Rachel is a chartered accountant and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. Rachel enjoys working with businesses with ambitious strategies to innovate and develop at pace to meet the ever-changing needs of their customers and consumers.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Divisional Leadership Team
- Managing Director, EdTech & Commodities
Rachel leads the EdTech and Commodities division at Hyve Group, which she joined in July 2018. She started her career in education, teaching English at a university in Mexico City, before moving into educational publishing. For seven years she commissioned and published English Language Teaching materials, most recently as Publisher of Adult ELT at Macmillan Education. Rachel joined i2i Events Group in 2013 to lead the expansion of Bett globally, launching events in Latin America, Asia and the Middle East. Since then she has worked across the EdTech portfolio of events, launching in new markets and driving significant growth across various channels, including digital, exhibitions, conferences and awards.
Job Titles:
- Chairman
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Non - Executive Chairman
- Non - Executive Director
- Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants
Richard joined Hyve Group plc as Chairman and Non-Executive Director in February 2018. He is also the Chairman of Gamma Communications plc, which has a market capitalisation of over £1.5bn, revenues of over £300m and provides cloud, voice and data communications solutions to UK businesses, and the Chairman of Tribal Group plc, an international technology solutions provider for the higher and further education sectors which is listed on AIM.
Richard, who is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, is an experienced chairman, with over 30 years of public company board experience.
Richard is keen to promote the use of technology to improve customer experience, efficiency and profitability. He is also very passionate about the promotion and development of young talent and promoting wider diversity in organisations.
Job Titles:
- Regional Director for the Asia
- Regional Director, Asia
Based in Hong Kong, Tom is Regional Director for the Asia division and also sits on the board of Hyve's joint ventures in China and Indonesia. Tom joined Hyve in October 2016 as Finance Director, Asia. Prior to joining Hyve, Tom held senior roles in finance and procurement across real estate, banking and telecom businesses such as JLL, Citibank & Singtel-Optus, alongside leading a lean transformation program to drive operational efficiencies. Tom has a master's degree in Finance from University College, Dublin and is a qualified accountant.
Tom is passionate about driving a collaborative and supportive culture across all business workstreams to support and implement Hyve's dynamic customer-centric strategy.