ANNETTE THOMAS 

Annette Thomas is the CEO of Macmillan. Annette joined Macmillan in 1993 as the cell biology editor for Nature magazine. She held a number of editorial and publishing roles within Nature Publishing Group, including Publisher of the ground-breaking Nature Reviews series, before being appointed Managing Director in October 2000. During the seven years of her leadership, NPG established itself as a major scholarly publisher, extending the reach and influence of the Nature brand in science and medicine and developing an enviable reputation for innovation, particularly in the digital space. In 2007, Annette was awarded the Kim Scott Walwyn prize, set up in 2004 to celebrate outstanding achievements by women in publishing. She was appointed CEO of Macmillan in October 2007 and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Verlagsgruppe von Holtzbrinck (Macmillan’s parent company).

MICHAEL BARNARD

Michael Barnard is the Deputy Chairman of Macmillan. After an early career in newspaper and magazine journalism, he joined Macmillan in 1972, became a main board director in 1978 and worked in many areas of the company, including journal publishing, production, logistics and fiction publishing, He is a past chairman of the Printing Industries Research Association, has written several books on technical aspects of publishing and is a visiting professor at the University of the Arts London.

JULIAN DRINKALL 

Julian Drinkall became CEO of Macmillan Education at the beginning of 2008 and is responsible for all of Macmillan’s education businesses around the world. Julian originally joined the Macmillan Limited Board in 2006 as Chief Operating Officer with responsibility for central departments including administration, distribution (MDL), finance, IT, legal and company secretarial, personnel and property. Julian’s previous positions were director of strategy and mergers & acquisitions for Boots Group, executive board director at IPC Media, the UK's largest consumer magazine publisher and head of financial and commercial strategy at the BBC, while other employers include Island Records entrepreneur Chris Blackwell and consultants Arthur D Little and LEK. Julian has an MBA from Harvard Business School and an MPA from Harvard’s John F Kennedy School of Government, where he won a Lucius N. Littauer Fellowship. Julian was also a teaching fellow in development economics at Harvard and has a BA in Philosophy Politics and Economics from Merton College, Oxford. He is married to Gillie and has three children.

ANTHONY FORBES WATSON 

Anthony Forbes Watson became MD of Pan Macmillan in May 2008 after three years as a publishing consultant, when he worked on strategy projects for Hachette UK, Bloomsbury and Simon & Schuster in New York. Before consulting, Anthony was CEO of Penguin UK which he ran for nine years, and in 2002-3 served as President of the UK Publishers Association.  As an Executive Director of the Longman Group he spent six years as MD of Ladybird Books and another as MD of  Pitman Publishing, having previously started out in publishing at the Oxford University Press before moving on to spend ten years in a series of domestic and international sales and marketing roles at HarperCollins.  He has a BA in English and Related Literature from York University, and is married to Jenny, an Australian with whom he has two adult children.

Tania Hummel 

Tania Hummel has been Group Human Resources Director since April 2008. She joined Macmillan in 2006 as Personnel Manager for the London divisions, having spent many years in publishing, most notably with Rough Guides and Lonely Planet publications. Working in stand-alone roles enabled Tania to develop commercial awareness and a thorough understanding of the challenges faced by Publishers, as well as to sharpen her skills as an HR Generalist.  Along the way, she acquired an MSc in HRM, with a special interest in Management Development. She has recently been accredited to use the Insights Discovery learning system.

STEVEN INCHCOOMBE 

Steven Inchcoombe was appointed Managing Director of Nature Publishing Group (NPG) in October 2007 and Chairman of Macmillan India Limited, having joined the Macmillan Publishers and Macmillan India Boards a year before. During his first year with Macmillan, Steven had responsibility for Macmillan Education’s businesses in Africa, Asia and the Middle East, and for Macmillan Production (Asia) Ltd (MPAL) in Hong-Kong, with a keen focus on growth, profitability and the development of the digital strategy for these businesses. Prior to joining Macmillan, Steven was UK Publisher at The Financial Times newspaper, having already held board positions at The Financial Times Group and FT.com between 2000 and 2006. From 1990 to 2000 he was with Interactive Data Corporation, a specialist in digital and online services for financial institutions, where he held commercial, development and general management positions. Steven studied physics at Merton College, Oxford, and qualified as a chartered accountant with PWC.

DOMINIC KNIGHT 

Dominic Knight is an Executive Director of Macmillan Ltd and Managing Director of Palgrave Macmillan.  He joined Macmillan as a graduate trainee and held several positions in editing, sales and marketing. In 1984, he moved to New York, where he established for Macmillan a new company, Stockton Press, selling and marketing the company's professional and reference lists. He returned to the UK in 1989 as Group Marketing Director for educational and academic businesses, and after a period as Group Publishing Director, became Managing Director of Macmillan Press in 1994. He was Chairman of the Council of Academic and Professional Publishers from 1998-2000. He is a director of the Publishers Licensing Society and of the Copyright Licensing Agency.

JONATHAN WHEELDON 

Jonathan Wheeldon joined Macmillan in September 2008 as Chief Financial Officer. Having qualified as a chartered accountant, he has spent most of his professional career in the music and entertainment industry. From 2001 to 2003 he was CFO and board director of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Really Useful Group and Really Useful Theatres. In 2003 he moved to EMI Music as Senior Vice President, Finance, leading a number of organizational change initiatives, before taking on the role of Senior Vice President, Corporate Development, where he developed strategic options for the Group, leading to its sale to private equity. In 2009, he was awarded a Doctorate in Business Administration at Henley, researching the implications of media/technology convergence for media businesses.