– UK, London – Bloomsbury Publishing Plc is holding its Annual General Meeting today at 12.00pm at its offices at 50 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3DP. At the AGM, the following announcements will be made.
We are delighted to welcome John Warren to the Bloomsbury Board as an independent non-executive director, chair of the Audit Committee and Senior Independent Director to succeed Ian Cormack whose term ends at this AGM. John sits on the Remuneration, Nomination and Audit committees.
John is a Chartered Accountant and has a wealth of non-executive experience including as audit committee chair of Welsh Water, Greencore Group plc, 4imprint Group plc, Bovis Homes Group PLC and Spectris plc. As an executive, he was Finance Director of WH Smith PLC and United Biscuits Plc. John Warren will be a member of the Audit Committee with recent and relevant financial experience. We look forward to working with him.
We are also delighted to announce that Jonathan Glasspool joins the Board as an executive director from the close of today’s AGM.
Bloomsbury’s large US business and the Academic & Professional division, which is the cornerstone of our future strategy, currently report to Jonathan. The Board will benefit from the voice of these two major parts of our business in the boardroom.
Jonathan joined Bloomsbury in 1999. He is Managing Director of Bloomsbury’s Academic & Professional publishing division and has overseen the development of this division through to it winning The Bookseller Industry Award for Academic, Educational & Professional Publisher of the Year in both 2013 and 2014, in addition to other awards.
Jonathan is Chair of the Industry Advisory Board at Oxford Brookes University, a Trustee of Publishing Training Centre, and is a Member of the Commercial Board of the ICAEW and the Academic & Professional Board of the Publisher’s Association. He has held roles in publishing with Reed Elsevier in the UK and Asia, the Chartered Management Institute, and Cambridge University Press. Jonathan has a first class degree in English from Trinity College, Oxford, an MA in English from Bristol University and an MBA with Distinction from Warwick Business School.
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