Meet the Speakers


Jo Henry leads Nielsen Book’s consumer insight service, which monitors the UK and US book markets through Books & Consumers, the premier resource for understanding book consumers and their buying behaviour. Jo started her publishing career at Victor Gollancz, latterly as its international trade sales director, before moving into publishing research in 1995.


Colin Hughes joined HarperCollins in April 2012 as m.d. of the Collins Education divi- sion. In October 2012 he was promoted to m.d., Collins Learning, bringing together the Education, Language and Geo divi- sions. In 2013 he launched Collins India, and he has been chair of the Education Publishers Council in the UK since 2014. Colin has previously worked for the Press Association, the Times and the Independent.


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Michel Lafrance is the founder and managing director of The Owl Field, an audio entertainment produc- tion company special- ising in 3D audio storytelling. The Owl Field won the BookTech Company of the Year Bronze Award at the 2015 FutureBook Awards.


Albert Hogan has extensive experi- ence of the entertain- ment sector, having worked in film, music and publishing. Albert joined Penguin Random House UK in February 2016 to lead its Group Market- ing and Audience Development arm; he is responsible for the audience strategy for core brands Penguin, Puffin and Ladybird, and interest brands Dead Good and The Happy Foodie.


Nicholas Jones, m.d. of Strathmore Publish- ing, expected to go into scientific publish- ing... but his first job at Michael Joseph found him copy-editing Dick Francis. He managed tie-in titles at Thames Television, where he learned many of the skills that have come into play at Strathmore, the list he established in 1995 that works across print and audio.


Laurence Howell is the senior director of content at Audible, a position he has held since July 2011. He has been passionately involved in all areas of the audio and book industry for more than 20 years, during which time he has occupied senior positions at Waterstones, W H Smith and Amazon.


Anna Jean Hughes has worked in the publishing industry for over a decade: a brief fling with the Erotic Review, a minor assig- nation with Condé Nast and a long and complicated relationship with Random House. She then swapped sides and went to see how the other half live at agency Peter Fraser + Dunlop, before jacking in the traditional and going rogue with start-up The Pigeonhole.


Louisa Livingston has worked at United Business Media, run her own media research agency and spent many years in the music industry. She now works for Hachette UK, where she is tasked with bringing data-led insight to the fore- front in an industry that traditionally relies on gut instinct.


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Crystal Mahey- Morgan is the founder of OWN IT! She left Penguin Random House in 2014 to set up OWN IT!, a lifestyle brand telling stories across books, music, fashion and film. She has also written for the Guardian and The Face, and worked as the marketing manager for the Raindance Film Festival.


Roy McMillan is a director, writer, narra- tor, actor and the audiobook producer for Penguin Random House. He has directed readings of Zadie Smith, Stephen Fry, and Jeff Kinney’s Wimpy Kid series, among many hundreds of others and has read titles ranging from quantum physics to Ladybird Classics. Before joining Penguin, he worked as a free- lance producer, as well as directing plays for BBC Radio 3 and Radio 4.


Ryan Mullins is a digital and mobile- first strategist and co-founder of Oolipo, a unique digital reading platform. With broad interests in internet and information theory and machine learning, Ryan’s ethos is that “mobile-first” refers not to a device, but rather to the user.


Ian Mulvany is head of product innovation at SAGE. He is respon- sible for supporting the development of tools that can help social science researchers work with big data. Previously he was head of technology at eLife Sciences, head of product at Mendeley and a product manager for a number of Nature Publishing Group’s online services for researchers. Ian is passionate about creating digital tools that support research.


Jon Kampfner is the chief executive of the Creative Industries Federation (CIF), the national membership organisation bringing together the UK’s creative industries and arts education institutions to speak with extra clout. The CIF provides an authoritative and united voice for the fastest-growing sector of the UK econ- omy, calling for the infrastructure and investment (both public and private) needed to ensure future growth.


Paul Lomax is chief technology officer at Dennis Publishing, where he is respon- sible for technology and digital product development. A digital media profes- sional for over 15 years, Paul has been responsible for the launch of more than 100 major websites and apps for the likes of the Guardian Media Group and Time Inc. He currently chairs the Asso- ciation of Online Publishers’ product development group.


Sam Missingham is the head of audi- ence development at HarperCollins UK. She is responsible for engaging and building audiences around HarperCollins’ books and authors. Sam formerly worked at The Bookseller across subscriptions, marketing and events. She co-founded the FutureBook Conference and website in 2010.


Andrew Keen is one of the world’s best known and most controversial commen- tators on the digital revolution. He is the author of three books, including The Internet is not the Answer, which the Washington Post called “an enormously useful primer for those of us concerned that online life isn’t as shiny as our digital avatars would like us to believe”. He is an executive director of Silicon Valley-based salon FutureCast.


Rose Luckin is professor of learner- centred design at the UCL Knowledge Lab. Her research involves the design of adaptive educational technology and draws on theories from psychology and tech- niques from artificial intelligence. She works closely with educators and with the EdTech industry, in particular start- ups and SMEs, to enable them to inte- grate research evidence and methods into their products.


Ali Muirden has been an audiobook publisher for 16 years. A former chair of the UK Audio Publishers Association, she runs a consultancy business for audio publishers. Her clients include Bloomsbury, Pan Macmillan, Palgrave Macmillan, Random House, Harper Audio, Nosy Crow, Quercus, Macmillan Audio, Penguin Audio, Scholastic UK, Hot Key Books, Brilliance Audio and The British Library.


Niamh Murray gave up a career in digital media training and design to take an MA in publishing. After a short stint at OUP, she took a job at Serpent’s Tail, where a decade later she is its marketing direc- tor. Niamh drives marketing strategy across fiction and non-fiction, and manages the marketing team for both lists. Successful brand partnerships (The Wellcome Collection, the Econo- mist) are a key part of her role.


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Joseph Noble is head of channels and partnerships at OUP, which pursues a range of business develop- ment projects with small and large companies, bringing innovative digital products to market and developing new scalable business models. Joseph studied English and Law at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, where he qualified and practised as a lawyer, specialising in IT and IP contracts.


FutureBook | 2nd December 2016


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