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John
Broom
Managing Director and founder of the Meridian Consultancy Group, John
has worked in personnel and human resource management within magazine,
newspaper and book publishing, for more than 30 years, including 14 years
as a board director at Penguin Books. He specialises in senior management
recruitment and career management campaigns.
Jo
Howard
Jo Howard, who became Chair of Meridian Search & Selection in 2007, has
more than 25 years' experience in the book trade. As a result of this
she has developed a broad knowledge and understanding of publishing and
book retailing and an unrivalled network of industry contacts.
She
has held many key positions, including leading strategy development for
WHSmith Retail, having previously been Director of their Children's and
Education Business Unit and Product Marketing Director for Books. Prior
to joining WHSmith she was Commercial Director, and then Supply Chain
Director, for Waterstone's.
Currently
Chair of both the Book Marketing Society and of the publishing business
of disability charity RADAR, she has been a Non-Executive Director of
Bertrams and was Chair of World Book Day in 2005. She is a Fellow of the
Royal Society of Arts.
In
addition to her work with Meridian, Jo also manages her own consulting
practice in leadership development and business coaching.
Caroline
Campkin
From production control at Thames and Hudson to production director at
Berlitz Publishing and Oxford University Press, Caroline's career in publishing
has spanned more than 25 years with some of the best known trade, academic
and illustrated book publishers in the business. She has also worked as
a management consultant for both publishers and printers, both in the
UK and internationally and has lectured in Production at the London College
of Printing. At Meridian Caroline now assists clients with recruitment
in publishing and printing across all disciplines and at all levels.
Greg
Evaristo
Greg
has worked in book publishing and business consulting for over 15 years.
Operating successfully in the areas of one to one senior executive coaching
and career coaching. He is a founder Charter Member of the UK College
of Life Coaching, and previously managed his own publishing sales promotions
business. Greg's last role in publishing was as Sales Development Director
with Transworld. At Meridian he specialises in a range of specialist areas
particularly in sales and marketing opportunities.
Christian
Kelly
Christian has enjoyed over 25 years' involvement with recruitment / HR,
personnel and training, all at senior management level with a number of
'blue chip' companies within publishing and advertising including working
as HR and Training and Development Manager at HarperCollins. Registered
with the British Psychological Society, Christian specialises in recruitment,
psychometric assessment and career/outplacement counselling.
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