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| Roger Parry, Chairman |
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Roger joined Media Square at the end of June 2007 with a brief to restructure the Group. He currently chairs Future plc, Mobile Streams plc and YouGov plc, all of which are quoted media-sector businesses. Roger is Chairman of Shakespeare's Globe Trust. A former journalist with BBC and ITV, Roger also previously worked for consultants McKinsey, advertising group WCRS, and media buying group Aegis. He was CEO of the media company More Group plc which he sold to Clear Channel and then became Chairman and CEO of Clear Channel International. Roger was educated at the universities of Oxford (Jesus College) M.Litt and Bristol. BSc. He is a Visiting Fellow of Oxford University. Roger is Chairman of the Nomination Committee. |
| Peter Reid, Group Chief Executive, Chairman Illuminas | |
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Peter was appointed to the Board on 5th November 2009 and became Group Chief Executive on 1st January 2010. He is also Chairman of our Market Research group, Illuminas. Peter joined Media Square in October 2007 as Group Development Director. Before this, Peter was a Senior Manager at the management consultants, McKinsey & Co. At McKinsey, Peter focused on media, sports and telecoms sectors, including working with private equity houses on a number of major media turnarounds and leading extensive research into digital and mobile advertising. Prior to McKinsey and business school, Peter worked for Sibson Consulting, where he joined a team of four to establish and grow the London office of an international human capital consulting firm. Peter has an MBA from INSEAD and an M.A. (hons.) in European History & French from the University of Edinburgh. |
| Bruce Winfield, Group Finance Director & COO | |
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Bruce is a qualified accountant and has thirty years managerial experience with a number of muti-national companies, British Airways, ACT, Havas Advertising and Media Square. Having floated and sold a computer graphics company to ACT, he then joined ACT as Financial Director and later Divisional CEO and after ten years moved to Havas Advertising in a similar role. From June 1st 2009 Bruce takes over some of the duties of Graeme Burns. |
| Michael George, Non-Executive Director |
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| Michael joined the Board on 8th June 2006. He is the Founder and Managing Partner of MaxCap Partners, a Multi Family Office based in London. MaxCap exists to manage his own family money as well as third party clients' money. Prior to this Michael was an Investment Director at Electra Partners, the private equity firm, where he managed a portfolio of venture capital trust and private equity investments. Michael is Chairman of the Remuneration Committee and member of both the Audit and Nomination Committees. |
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| Neil Canetty-Clarke, Non-Executive Director |
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| Neil joined the Board on 24 November 2009. He is co-founder of www.schoolstrader.com. He graduated from Edinburgh University in 1984 and joined Morgan Grenfell. In 1989 he joined LWT and became Group Finance Director of LWT (Holdings) plc in 1992. He has also worked as Group Finance Director of Guardian Media Group plc, CFO of iTouch plc and in senior finance roles at Granada and ITV. In 2006, he attended the AMP at Harvard Business School. Neil is Chairman of the Audit Committee. |
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