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John Botts

, Chairman
Appointed to the Board as a non-executive director in 1997, John Botts became Chairman in December 2007. He is a Managing Director of Allen & Company in London. Other directorships include Euromoney Institutional Investor plc, Glyndebourne Arts Trust, Tate Foundation. He is a graduate of Williams. (2) (3)  

David Levin

, Chief Executive Officer
David Levin was appointed as UBM's Chief Executive Officer in 2005, having previously been chief executive of Symbian, a mobile phone software licensing company, since April 2002. He joined Symbian from Psion PLC, the handheld computing company, where he was chief executive from February 1999. Prior to that, he had various roles with the international business-publishing group Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC, as Group COO, Group CFO and as President of Institutional Investor magazine group in New York. Previously he worked with the venture capital group Apax Partners, based in the UK, and with the consultancy firm Bain and Company, mostly in Asia and the USA. David has an MBA from Stanford University and an MA from Oxford. David is also a member of the finance committee of the Oxford University Press, a department of Oxford University. 

Robert Gray

, Chief Financial Officer
Robert Gray joined UBM’s Board as Chief Financial Officer in September 2009 having previously been at Codere S.A. for five years where he was Chief Financial Officer and a member of the Executive Committee. Before joining Codere, Mr Gray enjoyed a successful 24 year career in investment and commercial banking. From 1999 he was Managing Director, Latin American Investment Banking for Deutsche Bank, based in New York. Prior to his role at Deutsche Bank, Mr Gray spent almost twenty years in a variety of roles at J.P. Morgan Co. with a particular focus on building and managing banking businesses in international markets, notably Latin America. Robert is an MBA graduate of Harvard Business School.

Jonathan Newcomb

, Non-Executive Director
Jonathan Newcomb was appointed to the Board in 2001. He is a board member of Journal Communications (NYSE) and the BNA Corporation, and is currently a senior advisor at the New York based investment firm Coady Diemar. He was chairman and CEO of Simon & Schuster, one of the world’s largest book publishers and providers of educational and training materials, from 1994 until 2002, having been president and chief operating officer from 1991. From 2002 to 2004 he was a principal with Leeds Equity Partners, a New York based private equity firm, and between 2006 and 2007 he was President and Chief Executive Officer of Cambium Learning, an educational services provider. Previous employment included McGraw Hill (where he was responsible for Standard & Poor’s and Data Resources) and Dun & Bradstreet. He is chairman of UBM’s Audit Committee. (1) (2) (3)  

Karen Thomson

, Non-Executive Director
Appointed to the Board in 2006, Karen Thomson was a director of Vodafone UK Limited until June 2008. Prior to that she was president of AOL Europe, having been chief executive and chairman of AOL UK, with responsibility for the AOL and Compuserve services in the UK. Karen was with AOL for over 11 years and under her leadership, AOL became one of the leading online content providers in the UK. Prior to AOL, Karen held roles as planning and business development director in UK advertising and marketing agencies following positions in the mobile communications industry. She holds a Master’s degree in Philosophy from Aberdeen University and an honorary doctorate and MBA from Middlesex University. (2)

Pradeep Kar

, Non-Executive Director
Appointed to the Board in 2006, Pradeep Kar is the founder, chairman and managing director of Microland, India’s leading provider of outsourced IT infrastructure management services. Pradeep is the president of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), Bangalore Chapter and Founder of the Bangalore Chapter of the Young Presidents Organization. Pradeep’s leadership acumen has been recognized with numerous accolades, notable among these are the “India Young Business Achiever Award” as well as being selected by the World Economic Forum as a 'Global Leader for Tomorrow’. He sits on the Advisory Board of Leaders’ Quest, an international social enterprise based in London. Pradeep holds a degree in mechanical engineering and a post-graduate degree in management. (1)  

Alan Gillespie

, Non-Executive Director
Alan Gillespie CBE was appointed to the Board in April 2008. He is chairman of the International Finance Facility for Immunization (IFFIm), an intergovernmental organisation established to fund vaccination programmes for children in many of the world's poorest countries. Dr Gillespie has previously held posts in both the public and private sectors, including as chairman of Ulster Bank Group, partner at Goldman Sachs & Co, chief executive of the Commonwealth Development Corporation, and chairman of the Northern Ireland Industrial Development Board. He is chairman of UBM’s Remuneration Committee and the Senior Independent Director. (1) ( 3)

Terry Neill

, Non-Executive Director
Terry Neill was appointed to the Board in September 2009. Terry is based in Ireland, where UBM has its corporate headquarters.  He is currently a non-executive director of CRH plc, the international building materials group also headquartered in Ireland, and of Bank of Ireland Group. Terry is also Chairman of the Finance Committee of London Business School, where he is a Governor, and Chairman of Camerata Ireland orchestra. From 1993 to 1999 Terry was the worldwide Managing Partner of the Andersen / Accenture’s Change Management Practice. He was also a senior partner in Accenture until August 2001 and was part of the team that successfully developed and executed the strategy for transforming Accenture into a public company in 2001. His other roles with the organisation included Chairman of Accenture/ Andersen Consulting’s board and Chairman of Andersen Worldwide.(2)

Anne Siddell

, Company Secretary
Anne joined UBM in June 1997 from House of Fraser plc where she was Company Secretary. A solicitor by training, Anne spent several years in private practice in the City specialising in media and intellectual property law before joining the TVS group, where she spent six years first as in-house lawyer and subsequently as Group Company Secretary and Head of Legal Services. Anne graduated from Leeds University with an honours degree in Spanish and Portuguese and qualified as a solicitor in 1979.