The PTC Board of Trustees

At the Publishing Training Centre, we are lucky to be able to draw on the experience of a dedicated board of trustees, who have between them held some of the most senior positions in UK publishing:

Nigel Brockmann (chair)

Nigel Brockmann recently retired as a senior HR executive with Thomson Reuters. He has previously held international HR roles in Black & Decker, L’Oreal and Rover. After studying Sociology, French and English in both the UK and France, he spent time working for The British Council helping post-graduate students from the developing world to complete their higher education in UK universities. He has been Chairman of the PTC since 1999 and a Director since 1997. His main leisure interest is music: he runs a small amateur orchestra, The Mornington Sinfonia, in North London.

Hugh Look

Hugh Look is a Senior Consultant with Rightscom Ltd, where he consults on strategy, policy and innovation issues for clients including commercial publishers, UK government agencies and the European Commission. He is also a writer and lecturer covering publishing, media and technology sectors. He has been closely involved in many forms of digital media for over twenty-five years, and as well as his consultancy activities has held a variety of senior management posts in publishing. He is a committed (but as yet unremunerated) photographer.

Peter Mothersole

Peter Mothersole has worked at the Publishers' Association, at Oxford University Press where he managed variously the Educational, International, and ELT Divisions, and at Macmillan as Managing Director of Macmillan English Campus and onestopenglish.com.

Mina Patria

Mina is currently Publishing Director at Berlitz Publishing. From the very start of her publishing career, Mina spent a significant amount of her time attending courses run by the PTC, and has thereafter sent a number of staff from the various companies she has worked with onto PTC courses as well. Mina’s professional experiences include academic works at Routledge, illustrated children’s books at Dorling Kindersley, a range of multiple-media offerings across the whole range of genre groups at the BBC, educational and careers guidance materials for the youth and professional markets, and a number of 'tools' for the BSI to help organisations embed Risk and Business Continuity standards across the public and private sectors.

James Richardson

James is an HR and Anti-Bribery consultant and was previously Director of Corporate Social Responsibility for Macmillan Publishers Limited. Prior to taking on this job, he was Group Personnel Director of Macmillan, having worked in a variety of Personnel roles for the Group since 1989. He is also a member of the Oxford Brookes Publishing Studies Industry Advisory Board.

Tim Robinson

Tim Robinson started his career in consumer publishing with Victor Gollancz in 1995, before moving to the STM and professional sector with Thomson, and then to Taylor & Francis as a Commissioning Editor. Tim joined the publishing arm of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) in 1999 where he was Publishing Director until 2007 before becoming Director of Strategic Business Development. Tim’s expertise and experience in the world of digital content is proving invaluable to the PTC.

Lis Tribe

Lis Tribe is Managing Director of the Hodder Education Schools Division , one of the largest secondary schools publishers in the country . She joined Hodder from Routledge in 1993 as commissioning editor for vocational subjects, and has worked in a variety of publishing roles since then. At a time when the pace of change in educational publishing is really very rapid, Lis firmly believes that training is of great value to companies in supporting and developing their staff in their existing as well as future roles.

Graham Taylor

Graham is a Director of educational, academic and professional publishing at The Publishers Association.

Bridget Shine

Bridget is the Executive Director of the Independent Publishers Guild (IPG).