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 is a senior HR executive with the newly created Thomson Reuters. He is involved in a wide range of people management issues in Europe and in Asia Pacific. 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
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 Richardson is 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 in of great value to companies in supporting and developing their staff in their existing as well as future roles.
Benjamin King
Benjamin King is Head of Policy and Communications at the Publishers Association. He has a background in political communications and public policy. Previously he was public affairs and policy adviser at the Electoral Commission, and a consultant at global communications agency Edelman, advising private, public and third sector bodies on government relations, advocacy and coalition-building. In his current role Benjamin leads the sector on major policy issues including copyright and piracy. He is a vocal advocate for the importance of skills as a driver of change and the means by which publishing can achieve its potential during the transition to digital.