| February 2000 to present |
MANAGING DIRECTOR, ECONTENT MANAGEMENT PTY LTD:
Academic & professional publishing & consulting services in health
sciences, management (organizational) sciences and counselling. Owner/
publisher of three academic journals; author and publishers' Agent. |
| October 2001 - September 2003 |
EAST ASIAN REGIONAL MANAGER, SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD:
Asian sales agency management for university texts, software and journals.
Managing territory budget of A$3 million; o/s travel 4 months p.a.
to North and South East Asian conferences, London and Frankfurt bookfairs |
| October 1997 to September 2001 |
ANZ REGIONAL DIRECTOR, SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD:
Product acquisition (journals, software, books), author and agency management
for global social sciences publisher in university level markets. Managing
ANZ agent, agent replacement, contract negotiation and development |
| November 1998 to November 2001 |
PUBLISHING CONSULTANT
TO THOMSON LEGAL & REGULATORY GROUP (LBC):
Mentoring commercial law development staff in database, looseleaf and
book acquisition, marketing in electronic and print media and portal
development. Negotiation with key industry bodies |
| March 1997 to June 2000 |
PUBLISHING DIRECTOR, JOHN LIBBEY & CO.:
'Managing in' the sale and transfer to John Libbey & Co. of FT Law & Tax
list from Pearson Professional, including business planning, sales representation
and staff training, managing author and customer relationships; 25% owner. |
| January 1997 to June 2000 |
CALIBRE COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR:
Asia Pacific publisher and owner of programme in innovation management,
policy and research commercialisation, database building, email push
marketing, web design; consulting to CSIRO (Manufesto'98), APEC Technomart
III, Quotient. |
| January 1996 to February 1997 |
FT LAW & TAX PUBLISHER,
PEARSON PROFESSIONAL, SYDNEY:
Executing acquisition strategies, budget A$1m p.a.; development of new
business-to-business bulletins, conferences, texts, reissue of key backlist;
inventory restructuring, product positioning, packaging and management. |
| May 1992 to December 1995 |
COLLEGE PUBLISHER, HARPER
COLLINS, SYDNEY:
Tertiary educational publisher of texts, educational software and adaptations
in business, engineering, life science, social science, psychology and
stats; Member of HarperCollins Advanced Media committee; budget A$2m
p.a. |
| October 1991 to April 1992 |
MANAGER, EDITORIAL, DESIGN
AND PRODUCTION DIVISION, MCGRAW-HILL BOOK CO, SYDNEY:
International intercompany liaison on global publishing strategy, local
product budgets, schedules, managing 15 staff; sales liaison, overseeing
80 texts per annum; budget $A5m p.a |
| January 1987 to October 1991 |
PUBLISHING MANAGER
- TAX, BUTTERWORTHS, SYDNEY:
Strategy, budgets, sales growth, SGML design and repositioning into a
rapid publishing program tax law and practice subscriptions and annuals;
write PDs, recruit, train and manage a team of 29 staff; budget A$2.5m
p.a. |
| July 1986 to January 1987 |
ASSOCIATE EDITOR, MEDICAL JOURNAL
OF AUSTRALIA, AUSTRALASIAN MEDICAL PUBLISHING CO., SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA:
Managed marketing, acquisition, reviewing, editorial and production;
executive business plan to improve its profitability, spin-offs and sponsored
product; sales liaison; survey design and implementation |
| 1982 to 1986 |
JOURNALS' EDITOR/MANAGER,
ACQUISITIONS DEPT, ELSEVIER SCIENCE PUBLISHERS, BIOMEDICAL DIVISION,
AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS:
Budgeting, development, planning, direct marketing, conference and sales
management of 30 research journals in Irish, UK, Japanese, US and French
offices; sales growth from US$5-8m p.a |
| 1976 to 1983 |
EDITORIAL SECTION HEAD, SENIOR EDITOR, EDITOR, ELSEVIER SCIENCE
PUBLISHERS, BIOMEDICAL DIVISION, AMSTERDAM |
| 1974 to 1975 |
GRADUATE RESEARCH ASSISTANT IN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; ARC GRANT,
FLINDERS UNIVERSITY OF SA - FACULTY OF MEDICINE |
