Colin Morrison

Colin Morrison is the chairman, non-executive director and consultant to several media and digital companies in Europe and Asia.

Morrison is chairman of Globelynx (part of the Press Association) and Skips Educational, and a non-executive director of the Travel Weekly Group. He was formerly chairman of Pharmaceutical Press, the British National Formulary and RCN Publishing, and was a non-executive director of Centaur Media, IPCN and eQuoteCentral[1] He is a print-to-digital strategy adviser to private media companies in the UK and Australia.

Career

From 2004 Until March 2008, he was Chief Executive of ACP-Natmag Magazines, a United Kingdom partnership between the National Magazine Company (owned by the Hearst Corporation) and the CVC-owned Australian Consolidated Press and was also CEO of ACP Media UK Ltd. Having established this weekly magazines group and been CEO since its formation four years before, Morrison left after selling ACP's 50% share to Hearst/NatMags.[2][3]

Morrison has managed media businesses (magazines, newspapers, online, TV production, international licensing, B2B information and exhibitions) in the UK, across Europe and in the US and Asia–Pacific.[4]

He was formerly deputy chief executive of Reed Business Information, CEO of EMAP Communications, CEO of Australian Consolidated Press, COO/ Managing Director of Future Plc, CEO of Axel Springer International, and a director of public companies Emap Plc, Future Plc, and Publishing & Broadcasting Ltd (Australia). He was also chairman of TV production company GRB Entertainment (2000).[1] He has worked as a journalist on newspapers and magazines variously in the UK, Ireland and the USA, and has managed print, TV and online media businesses around the world.[5]

He is a former chairman of Magazine Publishers of Australia (1996–99), of British Business Press (1988–93), and a director of the UK Professional Publishers Association (1989–95 and 2001–03).[1]

Philanthropic

He is Chairman of the Royal National Children's Foundation (patron: HRH The Princess Royal), of which he was formerly a beneficiary, Freeman of the City of London and liveryman of the Stationers Company, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and Fellow of the Industry Parliament Trust. He is a member of the Cook Society, and the Groucho, Savile, RAC and 1920 clubs.[1]

In his role as Chairman of the Royal National Children's Foundation (formerly the Royal Wanstead Children's Foundation) since 2001, Morrison has been campaigning for government to learn the lessons of the charity's work and what the UK's state and independent boarding schools can do to help transform the life prospects of vulnerable children.[6] He was a member of the UK government's Pathfinder group on vulnerable children, 2007-2010[7] and, in 2011, was responsible for launching the Assisted Boarding Network, supported by 60% of all local authorities in England and Wales and by the Department for Education[8]

Blogging

Morrison writes the blog "Flashes & Flames" on "media fortune, fame and folly".[9] and contributes to Huffington Post[10]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Colin Morrison, Esq Authorised Biography | Debrett's People of Today". Debretts.com. 1951-10-15. Retrieved 2014-06-06.
  2. ↑ "NatMags unveils ACP partnership". MediaWeek (Haymarket). 29 September 2004. Retrieved 16 April 2010.
  3. ↑ Brook, Stephen (6 March 2008). "NatMag buys out ACP". guardian.co.uk (London: Guardian News and Media). Retrieved 16 April 2010.
  4. ↑ http://hsprod.investis.com/ir/cau/pdf/Annual_Report_2012.pdf
  5. ↑ "Centaur Media Plc annual report". Centaur.co.uk. Retrieved 2014-06-06.
  6. ↑ "Welcome to the Royal National Children’s Foundation". Rncf.org.uk. Retrieved 2014-06-06.
  7. ↑ Department of the Official Report (Hansard), House of Commons, Westminster. "House of Commons Hansard Written Answers for 6 Feb 2006 (pt 63)". Publications.parliament.uk. Retrieved 2014-06-06.
  8. ↑ Paton, Graeme (20 June 2012). "Pupils from broken homes to be given boarding education". The Daily Telegraph (London).
  9. ↑ http://flashesandflames.com
  10. ↑ "Colin Morrison". Huffingtonpost.co.uk. Retrieved 2014-06-06.

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