Currently:
Chairman, Findlay Media Ltd.
Chairman, Leigh Academies Trust
Patron, Specialist Schools & Academies Trust

Previously:
Director, Periodical Publishers Association 1986-2008 (Chairman 1996-1998)
Deputy Chairman, Kent Training and Enterprise Council 1991-1995
Treasurer, Specialist Schools & Academies Trust 1989-2004

Bob Findlay, 65, is a Canadian who has lived in the UK since 1965. He joined Morgan-Grampian in 1969 and later became managing director of its main operating subsidiary and a director of the public holding company, with 300 directly reporting staff and responsibility for taking the group into Australasia. In 1974, he left Morgan-Grampian to start Findlay Publications.

Bob’s passion for UK manufacturing and engineering led to building the portfolio of titles now within Findlay Media. A strong desire to help address manufacturing’s greatest constraint – its skills shortage – through persuading young people to pursue careers in engineering, led him in 1989 to donate £400,000 and lead a £1.6million project developing new curriculum programmes for the fledgling City Technology Colleges Trust (now the Specialist Schools & Academies Trust). Concurrently he helped found and build the Kent TEC into a £30 million success delivering government training programmes, particularly those for young school-leavers.

In 2006, he became chair of governors at The Leigh City Technology College in Dartford.

That grew into the Leigh Academies Trust in 2008, responsible for operating two state secondary schools with over 2500 students.

But most of his time continues to be given to his publishing business, as it has for the past 35 years. Bob always gets back to Muskoka in Canada for his summer holiday. He says he wants to retire, but somehow there’s always one more challenge to conquer first,…

After an engineering apprenticeship, Peter spent the first 10 years of his career in production engineering and production management roles at Smiths Industries Vehicle Instruments, Lucas Industrial Systems and Dolby Laboratories.

After someone foolishly at a party suggested he could sling a few words together competently he decided to try his hand at Publishing. He began as technical writer on Machinery. Promoted after three years to Editor of Engineering Computers for four years, then Editor of Works Management for three years. He was awarded the coveted PPA Editor of the Year Award in 1996.

Over the next 10 years Peter has held a number of management and editorial roles across the company becoming Operations Director in 1998. He became a director of the company in 2000 and finally CEO in 2004.

Owning every power tool known to man, and some that it’s quite possible he has invented himself, he and his long suffering wife Ali are usually found renovating the latest in the long line of fixer uppers, that once fixed require an immediate move.

His 25 year long service presentation watch was immediately put on eBay in favour of a diamond blade stone cutter.

For the last 14 years Ed has occupied a number of senior positions within the B2B publishing industry. The particular focus on the marketing and online sectors came about during his time as publisher of New Media Age and then Marketing Week. This combined 6-year period, led to the development a number of successful brand extensions, award schemes and magazines as well as inclusion within The Guardians “Who’s who in media”. (Much to his Grandmothers delight). After 2 years as Group Publisher for Informa Telecoms & Media, Ed joined Findlay in July 2008.

Ed is director of the engineering design division of Findlay Media.

A member of the European advisory board of the BPA, he also does some free consultancy for Global Hand a UN supported charity website for linking aid with need.

Ed is an avid Spurs fan so spends much of his time miserable.