Our Staff
Meet the PPS Publications team...
Paul Hogan - Managing Director
Interests: It's family first - wife + three kids (boys 14 and 11, daughter 10), two dogs. Since hitting his 40s he has given up drink, started eating all his greens, and become a fanatical runner and cyclist. He hopes to run his third London Marathon this year in under 3.30 (previous PB 3.52) and his first Olympic Triathlon in August. If you want to be bored to tears ask him how his training is going.
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Stacey Edwards - Financial Director
Stacey, a Cancerian, is devoted to her children (two boys and a girl). She bakes a great deal of cakes - so many she has to bring them to work in order to get rid of them (causing havoc with the permanent diets that most PPS staff are on). In the last year she has also become addicted to running, often up to twice a day. She had even started lying to her friends, telling them she is going home to watch TV and eat sweets, when really she is going out to run 10km.
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Daniel Coleman - Event Director & Publisher
Daniel has now been with PPS for over 10 years. He grew up with the aim of being a fighter pilot, but after spending two years of successfully passing aptitude and medical tests whilst studying, he was told his legs were two inches too long to safely eject from any of the RAF's jets. His enthusiasm for aviation led him to work for PPS where he has since experienced more thrills and near death experiences than any possible career provided by the RAF.
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Kerry Parks - Office & Accounts Manager
Kerry has now been with PPS for 10 years and can still remember the days when there were only two computers in the office and no internet! Having seen many changes over the years there has always been a new challenge or project for Kerry to use her extreme organisational and, to the point of OCD, efficiency skills in – if you want something done yesterday, see Kerry! With a love of numbers Kerry enjoys working in accounts with Stacey and, even after email made her shorthand redundant, still works closely with Paul on anything and everything that needs doing. Holding a 2nd Dan Black Belt in Taekwondo Paul often asks Kerry for advice on sit-ups and stretching but still thinks he could put her in hospital!
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Sales
Jenny Rayner - Sales Director
Jenny has worked on and off at PPS for 15 years, and has worked across most of the business units, giving her a unique understanding of all aspects of the business. She has a keen interest in all things spiritual. She has a husband and three beautiful girls and likes to live life to the full and have as many adventures as possible. She has climbed a waterfall, has been buried alive, and has lived in darkness for a week. She definitely likes a challenge!
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Jon Lassetter - Business Development Manager, anna.aero & The Route Shop
Jon has been with PPS for over 10 years now and has enjoyed much success developing magazines in both Europe and North America. He is now using his talents to quickly grow our online products. Before joining PPS he spent years working his way up in the bar sector where he became a talented cocktail flair performer. He became so good that he spent time training TGI Fridays bartenders across the UK to throw bottles behind their heads and make every cocktail under the sun! He has great interest in cars, food & drink, and bad Hollywood movies for which his mind holds a wealth of related useless trivia.
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Ian Hill - Publisher, TFWA
Ian has worked across many industries but found his true calling in publishing Dailies for the travel retail sector. He is remarkably well read and knowledgeable about the classics - he read English at St Peter's College Oxford and has travelled the world. He is very good at tennis and has a house full of cats, dogs and grown up children.
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Ben Whibley - Head of Exhibitions and Sponsorship, ACI EUROPE & Future Travel Experience
Ben previously worked for UBM for 7 years on the flagship exhibition within the interiors market where he organised exhibitions in the UK, Middle East and China. Now with PPS as the Head of Exhibitions and Sponsorship he is driving sales for the ACI EUROPE events and the newly named Future Travel Experience business unit. With a keen passion to win, Ben also spends his weekends motor racing across Europe for team BWR Caterham. He has won several championships and achieved his first international win in Zolder 2009.
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Catherine Noakes - Exhibition & Publications Manager, ACI EUROPE & Future Travel Experience
Catherine can't believe that she's been selling the exhibitions and magazines at PPS for 8 years now – how time flies when you're having fun! Catherine is always ready to embrace with gusto the social aspect of her job and has a voice that can be heard from some distance.
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James Nixon - Publications & Exhibitions Manager, AOA
Before joining PPS, James worked for Lexis Nexis, selling across a number of legal titles. He plays the piano and once spent time in New York pursuing a music career, but returned to England as he missed the fine English weather, and didn't have a very good singing voice! He is an animal lover, a Liverpool supporter and could be a great Andy Garcia lookalike.
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James Howson - Publications & Exhibitions Manager, ACI EUROPE Events and Publications
James has worked at PPS for two years, working on the ACI EUROPE magazine Communique Airport Business and going on to manage our special editions for BAA Heathrow, GMR Delhi International and Dubai Airports. A new year brings new challenges and James is looking forward to starting work on Airport Exchange 2011, is association with ADAC in Abu Dhabi. Travelling extensively at the company's expense, he has enjoyed the delights of such locations as Dubai, Delhi, Barcelona, Munich, Istanbul, Brussels... and Birmingham. A particular highlight was taking an early morning Tuctuc ride through the streets of Mumbai, one he will never forget (and won't let the rest of us either)!
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Conference Team
Lynsey Giddings - Conference Director
Lynsey has been with PPS Publications for almost three years, managing the ACI EUROPE conferences. With more than 8 years experience in the events sector, she has worked on a wide range of events from charity events for 10,000+ participants in central London, organising conferences and awards ceremonies for the media industry, to organising networking events for the government. Lynsey read Psychology at Sussex University and with a love of travel, enjoys spending her free time escaping rainy days in the UK for sunnier climates.
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Andrea Bevan - Conference Executive
Andrea lives the closest to the PPS offices (under a mile) yet she still drives in every day. Before joining PPS she worked for Swarovski, and no doubt assumed that the world of publishing and events would be just as glamorous, but she soon found otherwise. Despite working in aviation she is absolutely terrified of flying, although she is slowly improving! In her spare time she enjoys shopping, eating, drinking and Bruce Willis films.
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Graham Alexander - Conference Executive
Graham has been with PPS for just over year and is now fairly confident of his ability to handle the tea round. His pastime of producing theatre has come in handy when organising conferences, whilst his Physics degree has yet to come in direct use (he does still manage to keep in touch with his inner nerd from time to time). He enjoys new experiences, even if it's just ordering the weirdest thing on the menu.
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Editorial
Ross Falconer - Managing Editor
Ross followed-up his passion for writing by completing a journalism degree. This led him to PPS, where he has worked on various titles relating to airports, airlines and travel retail, progressing to his current position of Managing Editor. A keen armchair sports fan, Ross supports Liverpool FC. Despite having never been to Liverpool, this does not make him a glory-seeker.
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Ryan Ghee - Editor, Future Travel Experience
A holder of a BA (Hons) in Multi-Media Journalism from Bournemouth University, Ryan is the editor of the Future Travel Experience unit and assistant editor on our array of other titles, including ACI EUROPE Airport Business, anna.aero, AOA Airport Operator and TFWA Dailies. He is a truly tenacious investigative reporter of the "private investigator" school. His motto in chasing down our material is borrowed from Churchill: "Never, Never, Never, Never give up."
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Ralph Anker - Editor, anna.aero
Ralph is the only member of PPS staff who has worked right in the thick of aviation. He was formerly Head of Business Development at Maersk Air and Head of Network Planning for Go Fly from where he moved to easyJet after its acquisition. Many people are surprised to learn that Ralph has any interests outside of work as he lives and breathes aviation, but in fact he is also very keen on architecture and cars and is succeeding very well at introducing his four year old son to these passions.
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Andreas Åkerman – Assistant Editor , anna.aero
A native of Varberg (Sweden), Andreas started his aviation career several years ago at the sharp end of customer focus in Virgin Atlantic's call centre, sparking an interest which took him (via a spell at Star Alliance in Frankfurt) to Cranfield University from which he holds an MSc in Air Transport Management and was awarded the easyJet Prize for Leadership and Initiative. Andreas also has a BA in English from Sweden's Lund University and also speaks Italian, German, Norwegian and Danish (although we are not qualified to test all these claims).
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Web, Design & Marketing team
Keith Bateup - e-commerce & Web Development Manager
Keith's interest in web development started many years before Web 2.0, back when the only internet browser available was Netscape Navigator. Since then his passion has developed into a highly successful career helping business exploit the benefits of e-commerce. In his spare time he plays guitar (poorly) and enjoys watching his football team, Crystal Palace, lose most weeks.
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Nicholas Reffitt - Web Developer
Nick has a thriving interest in all things web-related. He began designing websites at the young age of 12, and got to grips with web programming at 13. He was previously a freelance web designer throughout his full time education, focusing on front-end development and user interface design. When Nick isn't knee-deep in books and blogs, he enjoys swimming, golf, and watching the rugby.
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Sheng Pang - Online Marketing Executive
Sheng's role is to drive the readership of our portfolio of websites to ensure that our substantial databases of other important people are utterly brilliant, and to generally strive to make sure that our websites are read by as many good people as possible. Raised in Guangzhou in China's booming Pearl River Delta, Sheng came to the UK in 2006 to take a master's degree in e-Commerce Management from the University of Warwick. After graduation, Sheng worked as an online marketing specialist in the internet retail industry before bringing his considerable cyber skills to PPS. Recently married, the Shengs spend most of their weekends exploring what he describes as: "the good-old English countryside."
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Richard Jende - Head Designer
Richard joined PPS over 7 years ago and works on all things design within the company. Originally a designer working primarily in print, he has now embraced the digital age and loves experimenting with design in new media such as video and web animation. When his nose isn't to the grindstone, he likes nothing more than to play drums for the rock band The Glass Room.
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Victoria Wilkinson - Graphic Design
Prior to PPS Victoria worked for Disney Cruise Line as their onboard Graphic Designer, sailing the Caribbean seas and occasionally working on daily newsletters. The terrible weather and lifestyle over there motivated her to return to the UK and pursue a real-life job. Her love of travel brought her to PPS where she could combine her passion for magazine design with exciting travel destinations. She is also an RYA Day Skipper, PADI Divemaster and CPSC Lifeboat Commander!
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