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Michael Higgins
Non-Executive Chairman
Michael joined the board on 1 May 2006. Michael spent the previous 10 years as a Partner at KPMG following 12 years at Charterhouse Bank, the last 8 as a Director. Michael qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Price Waterhouse. Michael currently is a Senior Adviser with KPMG and works with a number of private media and technology companies. In addition to chairing the PLC Board, Michael chairs the Audit Committee.
Michael Greenlees
Chief Executive
Michael was one of the original-founding partners of Gold Greenlees Trott which, from its launch in 1980, grew to become one of the great names in British advertising. Under Michael’s guidance GGT grew into an international advertising and marketing group providing services in advertising, sales promotion, direct marketing and media buying and planning. GGT plc. was listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1986 at which time Michael became Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, a role he occupied for over ten years until the sale to Omnicom in 1998 when he joined the Board of Omnicom and served as President & Chief Executive of TBWA Worldwide. In 2001 he was made Executive Vice-President of Omnicom Inc. Michael also chairs the Remuneration Committee.
Nick Manning
Chief Operating Officer
Nick Manning has spent 27 years in the Media Agency world, principally having co-founded Manning Gottlieb Media (MGM) in 1990. MGM became one of the most highly respected and fastest growing of Media Specialist agencies before becoming part of Omnicom in 1997. His most recent position was CEO of OMD's operations in the UK, heading up £800m of billings and 500 people. Nick also co-founded OPera, the media negotiation arm for OMD and PHD, with billings of £1bn. Nick has a wealth of operational experience and media insight.
Paul Gladman
CIO
Working with the company from inception and becoming IT Director in 1999, Paul developed the group’s technology platforms including all data capture and website systems. Now Chief Information Officer with responsibility for software development, infrastructure, data capture and QA he oversees much of Billetts Media Monitoring operations.
A graduate in Computation from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology Paul Gladman joined the Wellcome Foundation in 1989 as a systems analyst and programmer. During 1995 and 1997 he provided systems development services for Mintel International Group Limited in the capacity of Chief Systems Developer building their then ground breaking CD ROM database offering.
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Andrew Beach
Finance Director
Andrew qualified at PricewaterhouseCoopers, and worked within their Assurance business for 9 years until 2007. For the last 6 years he specialised in Entertainment and Media clients and headed up the firm's Publishing knowledge network. He joined Thomson Intermedia as Group Financial Controller in March 2007, and was promoted to Deputy Finance Director in January 2008, before being promoted again to Finance Director in April 2008. Andrew also acts as Company Secretary for the Group.
Stephen Thomson
Non-Executive Director
With a background primarily in IT planning, development and implementation, Stephen has been responsible for the creation of much of the Company’s in-house monitoring skills. Prior to founding Thomson, he was the IT director at Mintel and responsible for introducing technology solution to data delivery significantly influencing the business model. It was the application of technology to the media monitoring industry that was central to the set-up of Thomson Intermedia.
Sarah Jane Thomson
Non-Executive Director
With a media background spanning more than 12 years and encompassing agency and in-house account management and business development, Sarah is well qualified to understand the needs of professionals within the information industry today.
Prior to founding Thomson, Sarah Jane was manager of the Business Development Unit within Valin Pollin financial advertising and PR agency. From there, Sarah was headhunted to Mintel International as sales and marketing director, she was responsible for all of the company’s sales and marketing activities and managed a large team comprising direct sales, telesales, marketing communications and PR. During her career at Mintel Sarah was the key influence on strategic New Product Development. It was Sarah’s extensive knowledge of the information world and the impact of new technologies that led her to develop a new business model for media monitoring and so establish Thomson.
Fiona Driscoll
Non-Executive Director
Fiona Driscoll is Chairman of Health Lottery Ltd and NHS Lottery Limited. She is a non-executive Director of HM Treasury’s Efficiency Programme Board, the Home Office’s Bichard and IMPACT Programme Board and DEFRA’s Hampton/Better Regulation Board. She sits on Thomson’s Audit and Remuneration Committees. |
