EVENTS


Cat Jones Founders Factory


Cat is responsible for the travel and media sectors at Founders Factory, where she leads a team that creates and invests in 14 start-ups a year. She coaches founders across a portfolio of 40 companies and works with leaders at easyJet and the Guardian to unlock advantages for portfolio businesses.


FutureBook Live 2019 Meet the speakers


Master class


Ruth Jones Ingram Content Group


Ruth is director, global sales for digital services at Ingram Content Group. Ingram’s digital asset management services, e-book and audiobook sales and distribution tools aim to increase consumer sales of print and digital titles. Ruth also chairs the Book Industry Communcation operations board.


Troy Juliar Recorded Books


Troy is chief content officer for RB Media/ Recorded Books, a global audio publish- ing company with a catalogue of 45,000 titles and an annual publishing program of over 6,000 titles. He has worked in audio and trade publish- ing for more than 25 years.


Molly Ker Hawn The Bent Agency


Molly is director of The Bent Agency UK. Her time in the publishing industry has included editorial roles at Chronicle Books and Penguin USA and serving as national programme director at the Children’s Book Council, the trade association of American children’s book publishers.


Matt Keudel tonies®


Matt has been with tonies® since the very start, and has been building the brand since February 2016. He bought his expertise to the UK when he took over the role of country manager to oversee the UK launch in September 2018, and has since seen tonies® go from strength to strength.


Priya Lakhani OBE Century Tech


Priya is founder c.e.o. of Century Tech, an award- winning AI teaching and learning platform for schools, colleges and universities. A former barrister and entrepre- neur, Priya was awarded an OBE in 2014, while also advising the UK’s business secretary.Priya regularly joins BBC News to discuss current affairs.


Master class


Lee Langford Harris Interactive


Lee is a senior research director leading the media and entertainment practice at digital market research agency Harris Interactive. He works with a range of brands, using innovative qualitative and quantitative tools and online communities to deliver actionable insights that keep clients ahead of what’s next.


Alice Lloyd Orion


Alice spent 12 years as a documentary maker at BBC Radio 1 before joining the independent audio production company Wisebuddah in 2017. While there, she oversaw all of its speech content, including documentaries and podcasts for the BBC and Audible. She joined Trapeze and Orion as their first original audio editor in May this year.


Ahrani Logan Peapodcity


Ahrani is c.e.o. and co-founder of award- winning augmented reality STEAM EdTech firm Peapodicity, and co-creator of STEAM brand AugmentifyIt®. A former BBC science and education TV producer, Ahrani is also on the Children’s Media Conference advisory committee.


Victoria Loomes TrendWatching


Victoria is head of premium content at TrendWatching. An experienced presenter, Victoria has delivered empowering keynotes, internal strategy sessions and innovation workshops for brands across the globe, and is passionate about helping businesses to understand, validate and apply trends.


Sharmaine Lovegrove Dialogue Books, Little, Brown


Sharmaine is publisher at Dialogue Books, an inclusive imprint that is part of Little, Brown Book Group. She is inspired by innovative storytelling, and has worked in public relations, bookselling, events management and TV scouting, as well as being the literary editor of Elle.


Wade Lucas BookBub


Wade is international account manager at BookBub, where he works to promote great books and get new authors discovered. Before BookBub, Wade worked for both the HarperCollins and Penguin Random House speakers’ bureaus, helping authors reach new live audiences around the world.


Alice Lutyens Curtis Brown


After joining Curtis Brown in 2003, Alice began to handle the audio rights for authors, including Margaret Atwood and John le Carré. Having watched the audio market grow exponentially, she saw an opportunity to expand into new formats, and thus formed the original audio and podcasts department in 2019.


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Crystal Mahey-Morgan OWN IT!


Crystal started her career in publishing as a literary assistant at PFD, then joined Random House in 2009 working across contracts, sales, marketing and digital. In 2015, she founded OWN IT!, a storytelling lifestyle brand across books, music, art and film which she runs with creative director Jason Morgan.


Rachel Mallender Blinkist


Rachel is an experienced, award-winning creative leader. She currently leads Blinkist’s new content team. In previous roles as editor at BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra, and as group audio director at HarperCollins, Rachel pioneered many firsts, including audiobook and podcast innovation, visual radio programming and market-leading radio shows.


Caroline Michel PFD


Caroline has been c.e.o. of PFD since 2007. Before that, she headed the William Morris Agency in London. She has more than 25 years’ experience in the industry and ran both Vintage at Random House and Harper Press at HarperCollins. She is chair of Hay Literary Festival, chair of the BFI Trust and a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.


Lucy Mills Cambridge University Press


As head of publishing, English, Humanities and Languages, Lucy manages a commission- ing team and publishing strategy for the UK and international schools markets. She is passion- ate about her work, and a strong advocate of both innovation and inclusion in organisations.


Sam Missingham The Empowered Author


Sam is founder and c.e.o. of The Empowered Author, a membership service that gives authors ongoing advice, skills and insight to put them in a strong position for success. Before that she was head of audience development at HarperCollins, and from 2008–13 she was head of events and marketing for The Bookseller and FutureBook.


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