– UK, London – Last Word, an independent financial media solutions provider headquartered in London, with offices in Singapore and Hong Kong, today announced that Quentin Brocklebank will assume the position of Financial Director effective of 23 February 2016.
His most recent position was served as Finance Director for MLEX Limited, an independent media organisation providing market insight, analysis and commentary on regulatory risk. During his time there, he was central to the setup of new subsidiaries in three countries, supporting the rapid growth and expansion of its operations and was central to the sale and acquisition process of MLEX Limited by Lexis Nexis in 2015.
Brocklebank joined MLEX Limited in 2013, following five years previous as Group Finance Director at Electric Word plc, an AIM listed media business where he joined as the first FD to step up to the management team. As one of two Executive Board members, he partnered the CEO from appointment on strategy and investor relations and took on COO duties.
Previous to that, Brocklebank spent seven years, in various senior roles in the UK and US including, Group Financial Controller at Informa Group, the FTSE 250 media company.
Brocklebank commented on the new role, “I am delighted to be joining Last Word as an organisation so central to its community. I have many years’ experience in supporting such international and fast growing niche media businesses and look forward to being part of the next stage of Last Word’s continued success.”
“We are delighted that Quentin is joining us at a time of unprecedented growth across all the regions Last Word operates in” said Rod Boulogne, CEO & co-founder of Last Word on the strategic hire. “He brings a wealth of experience in the development of small and medium-sized enterprise publishing, in particular; data, digital and subscriptions and is the perfect fit for the direction of Last Word.”
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Last Word has been the final say for first to-market news, analysis and comment across the global wealth management market. Our invaluable insight, intelligent and inspirational content is delivered to our sophisticated markets across multi-channel platforms – print, digital, research, data and events.
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