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How I do it: Stephen Carter, Informa
Stephen Carter is CEO of Informa, the UK-listed B2B group which is the world's largest organiser of trade shows. He is a former telecoms-advertising-media executive and political adviser - who has...
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How I do it: Duncan Kirk, ROAR B2B
Duncan Kirk is CEO of the UK-based, private equity-backed trade show organiser ROAR B2B. The company was formed in 2019 with the acquisition of healthcare, environmental and marketing tech events...
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How I do it: Steve Swartz, Hearst
Steve Swartz is CEO and President of Hearst, one of the world's oldest and largest diversified media companies. He is a former financial journalist who had joined the Wall Street Journal after...
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How I do it: David Audrain, ExpoDevCo
David Audrain is CEO-partner of Exposition Development Company Inc (ExpoDevCo), of Atlanta, in the US, is a trade show development company designed to produce a platform for partnerships with other...
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How I do it: Adam White, Front Office Sports
Adam White is CEO and co-founder of Front Office Sports (FOS), the fast-growing US media company covering the business of sports which celebrates its 10th anniversary this month. He started the site...
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How I do it: Austin Rief, Morning Brew
Austin Rief is CEO of Morning Brew, the newsletter-centric media business that aims "to empower the modern business leader with engaging and accessible content". It is nine years this week since he...
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How I do it: Rick Stamberger, ex SmartBrief
Rick (Richard) Stamberger was the founder and CEO of SmartBrief, the B2B newsletter business he sold to Future Plc for some $60mn (2x revenue, 12x EBITDA). The company produced 250 digital...
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How I do it: Tobi Oredein, Black Ballad
Tobi Oredein is CEO and co-founder of Black Ballad, an online media brand for black women in the UK. It aims "to help every black woman realise how she can change her world through every click she...
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How I do it: Jerry Perkins, Wasted Talent
Jerry Perkins is CEO and co-founder of Wasted Talent, a UK music media publisher which was originally launched as Development Hell in 2003. He had previously been an advertising manager and publisher...
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How I do it: Jed White, Andi AI search
Former tech journalist Jed (Jeremy) White is co-founder of Andi, self-described as "the next generation of search using the power of AI". Others have called it a mashup between Google and...
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How I do it: Wolfgang Marzin, Messe Frankfurt
Wolfgang Marzin is president and CEO of Messe Frankfurt, one of the world’s leading trade fair, congress and event organisers with their own exhibition grounds. It employs 2,300 people at 28 locations...
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How I do it: Samir Husni, ‘Mr Magazine’
Dr Samir Husni is the former university lecturer who is such a magazine fanatic that he trademarked his "Mr Magazine" tag. He served as professor of journalism at the University of Mississippi for...
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How I do it: Joshi Herrmann, Mill Media
Joshi Herrmann is the founder and CEO of Mill Media, a UK local email newsletter business launched as The Mill, in Manchester, exactly four years ago. It has since expanded to Liverpool (The Post),...
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How I do it: John Lerner, Breaking Media
John Lerner is CEO, of Breaking Media, in the US, and has more than 30 years of experience in B2B markets, starting as a marketing trainee at Inc. Magazine. He successively developed and managed the...
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How I do it: Alex Johnson, GFC events
Alex Johnson is CEO of Turnmill, the holding company for the UK-based GFC Media Group, which he co-founded with Piers Bearne almost 15 years ago. He had previously organised events for Euromoney. GFC...
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How I do it: Alastair Lewis, FIPP
Alastair Lewis is the newly-appointed, UK-based CEO of FIPP, the 99-year-old global media trade association formerly known as the International Federation of the Periodical Press. Its 300-strong...
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How I do it: Robert Marr, Metropolis
Robert Marr is CEO of the privately-owned, UK-based Metropolis Group of B2B and specialist media. He was appointed in 2011, having previously been chief operating officer of William Reed....
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’10 things I learned in 25 years at Incisive B2B’
Jonathon Whiteley spent more than 25 years at the UK-based B2B Incisive Media, including seven years at CEO, latterly including as CEO (Europe) of the Arc Network which had acquired the 27-year-old...
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How I do it: Simon Barr, Fieldsports Press
Simon Barr is CEO and co-founder of Fieldsports Press, the UK publisher which launched exactly six years ago with the £150k acquisition of Fieldsports Journal and Scottish Sporting Gazette. Since...
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