Ian Jones

CEO

Stockport, England, United Kingdom41 yrs 8 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

25+ years in publishing and events management.
Founded successful event management services business.
Led content strategy for major IT organizations.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned professional in publishing and event management with a focus on healthcare and IT sectors.

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Business DevelopmentBusiness IntelligenceChange ManagementEntrepreneurshipIT StrategyMarketingMarketing StrategyStakeholder ManagementTraining

About

Experienced, entrepreneurial, commercially minded publishing & events professional with 25+ years experience. Ian’s background is primarily as a research analyst, content director and publisher. Previously with Reed Business Publishing, followed by the British Computer Society – the UK's largest professional IT body. Ten years at BCS were punctuated by three years in Bath with Future Publishing, developing a computer books division. Ian then joined The National Computing Centre (NCC) in 2001 as Head of Research & Publishing and developed the content programme for 12 years leaving in 2012 to join Emerald Group Limited as Head of Service Development. In Summer 2013 Ian founded an event management services business with two partners, based in Cheshire. Specialties and core skills: - Business, professional & STM publishing - Strategic development & budget planning - P&L responsibility - Merger & acquisition - Project & resource management - Print, online & digital publishing - Event Management - creation, development & execution - Speaking and facilitation - Sales, marketing & channel development - Commissioning & negotiation - Market & product research - Production & quality control - Staff management inc. freelance/outsourced

Experience

Csi awards

Founding Partner & Event Director

Nov 2013 – Jun 2017 · 3 yrs 7 mos · Knutsford, Cheshire

The CSI Awards UK, celebrated and recognised the fantastic work carried out by social housing tenants and residents across the country, the Awards ran for 4 years. "The event, celebarted the committed volunteers who are making a tangible difference to their landlords’ services and strategies, and most importantly they are making a difference for other tenants and residents. There is a significant amount of truly inspirational and committed tenant involvement going on across the UK and we are delighted that we can help to recognise and celebrate some of this great work.”

Delegatecentral limited

Director & Founding Partner

Jul 2013 – Jul 2020 · 7 yrs · Bramhall, Cheshire

Delegate Central provided a fully integrated events management service covering all aspects of the event lifecycle. We have many years experience in developing and delivering rich event experiences across a wide range of sectors including: IT, Communications, Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals, Education, Charity & Not for Profit sectors.
The Delegate Central team had a reputation for developing and delivering high quality events including:
Major conferences & industry summits
Exhibitions & Awards Ceremonies
Seminars & Symposiums
Workshops
Round table dinners
Training programmes
Webinars
and many other types of events.

Pma

Director PMA

Jun 2013 – Present · 12 yrs 9 mos · Knutsford, Cheshire

PMA is a UK-wide membership body that provides insight, training, education and interaction opportunities for those involved in Primary Care and the wider health & care sector. PMA membership comprises Practice Managers, GPs, PCN & Practice Business Managers, and other Senior Managers across health & care, Nurse Practitioners, Dentists and Pharmacists – all working in partnership. It seeks to facilitate and promote best practice amongst its members.
The new look general practice will be able to work at scale, making best use of new technologies. There will be professional development and expansion of the healthcare workforce and improved practice environments. The GP practice will be working as part of a more joined up primary care workforce able to devote the greatest amount of time to quality and health improvement for patients and local communities.
PMA provides education and support to GPs, Practice Managers and all senior managers across health and care.

Emerald group publishing limited

Head of Service Development

Aug 2012 – Jun 2013 · 10 mos · Bingley, West Yorkshire

Emerald Publishing Group Limited - http://www.emeraldinsight.com/
Founded in 1967, Emerald has become the world’s leading scholarly publisher of journals and books in business and management with a strong and growing presence in disciplines including LIS, social sciences, engineering, linguistics and audiology.
Quick facts...
All the world's top 100 business schools (FT Global MBA Rankings 2011) have Emerald authors.
All Emerald research journals are peer-reviewed to ensure the highest quality.
In 2009, more than 21 million Emerald articles were downloaded and read in research and study, that's more than 50,000 a day, every day of the year.

The national computing centre

2 roles

Head of Content Development

Apr 2010 – Aug 2012 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Manchester, United Kingdom

www.ncc.co.uk
Working in an independent associate capacity, reporting directly to the CEO & executive board. Responsibility for content strategy development and project & programme execution.

Head of Research & Content

Jul 2001 – Apr 2010 · 8 yrs 9 mos · Manchester, United Kingdom

Full P&L responsibility for all publishing for the UK’s leading corporate membership body in IT. Objectives – to provide an effective sales & marketing channel and to ensure a professional, authoritative portfolio of intellectual collateral – NCC’s ‘thought-leadership’ to the IT sector.

The british computer society

Head of Publishing

Jan 1996 – Jun 2001 · 5 yrs 5 mos · Swindon, United Kingdom

P&L responsibility for all publishing for Europe’s largest professional Computer Society (40,000 members) now 75,000. Outputs: 10 peer review journals, 2 magazines, practitioner book series and management reports. Developed an authoritative, coherent series of products to support the technical, business and management requirements of UK IT practitioners. £25 million turnover. http://www.bcs.org/

Future publishing

Publisher; Computing Books

Dec 1993 – Jan 1996 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bath, United Kingdom

Set up Computer Books division, for one of the UKs leading magazine publishers. Published over 60 titles, in two years, covering all aspects of computing from IT applications (all you need to know series), money management, computer gaming and the UKs first, and best selling introductory Internet series, .net Guides (selling over 100,000 copies 94/95). Established a highly profitable set of brands within one of the fastest growing independent publishers – business subsequently sold to Pearson.