John Makinson is currently the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the publishers The Penguin Group[1] He is also a non-executive director of George Weston Limited in Canada.
Biography
After completing his degree at Cambridge University, John started working as a journalist, first at Reuters and then at the Financial Times, where he edited the influential Lex column. From there he moved to Saatchi and Saatchi's US Holding Company, before co-founding Makinson Cowell [2], a specialist independent financial consultancy firm. After 5 years, he returned to the Financial Times to become their managing director, before accepting a job as the Pearson Group finance director, where he worked until moving to the Penguin Group - a subsidiary of the Pearson Group. [3]
For the year 2007-2008 Makinson [4] made £1,240,000.00 in salary making him one of the most highly paid publishing executives in the business, second only to Pearson CEO Marjorie Scardino[5]
He has used his knowledge of business to help compile a report for the British government, called Incentives for Change, and received a CBE in 2001 for his services to public sector productivity. He was also photographed by Harry Borden for the National Portrait Gallery in Britain. [6]
External links
- Biography at Penguin Group
- Photography at the National Portrait Gallery
- Incentives for Change report
References
- ^ www.pearson.com/index.cfm?pageid=104
- ^ http://www.makinson-cowell.co.uk/mak/team/partners/
- ^ http://us.penguingroup.com/static/pages/aboutus/bio-makinson.html
- ^ http://people.forbes.com/profile/john-c-makinson/95021
- ^ http://people.forbes.com/profile/marjorie-scardino/62420
- ^ http://www.ircuk.org/about-irc-uk/who-we-are/people/trustees/
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