Executive Committee
Fast-moving, fast growing organisations like Trader Media Group require dynamic, inspirational leadership. Meet our Board of Directors.
John King - Chief Executive Officer
John King joined Trader Media Group (TMG) as CEO in June 2007. Before joining TMG John King was CEO of Trading Post, Australia’s leading specialist classifieds business. The group’s flagship brands are the Trading Post weekly print publication and its companion website, tradingpost.com.au. King’s previous roles include Chief Operating Officer of Sensis Classifieds and General Manager, Online Advertising of Sensis Pty Ltd. At Trading Post John developed a strategy to defend and grow the core print business while building Australia’s leading online classified verticals.
Andrew Miller - Chief Financial Officer
Andrew Miller joined TMG in 2002 as Group Financial Controller and was responsible for supporting the acquisition of TMG by Guardian Media Group. He was appointed Group Finance Director and to the Board of Trader Media Group in 2004.
Prior to TMG Andrew worked for eight years in Pepsico’s Fritolay division including roles as the director of finance for their European operations team and planning director at Walkers crisps. He has also worked at Bass PLC, Procter and Gamble
and as CFO in a “dot.com” startup.
Andrew is a member of Institute of Chartered Accountants Scotland and trained with Pricewaterhouse.
Matt Thompson - Group Marketing Director
Matt Thompson is Group Marketing Director of Trader Media Group (TMG), and joined in 1999 as Marketing Director for the Auto Trader brand. Prior to joining TMG Matt gained a wealth of experience within Marketing in the automotive sector. Starting out at Lucas Automotive and then moving onto Perkins Engines where he worked in the US and then National Tyres & Autocare. In 1994, Matt joined ERF, as Head of Marketing where he worked in the UK and Canada as part of the team that navigated the sale of the business to Western Star.
Alan Turner - MD Print Division
In 1976 Alan Turner was one of two directors at Acorn Web, Alan was running the sole printing press and looking after all aspects of production. Alan’s involvement in Acorn lasted for 14 years, in that time the business grew from nothing, to one turning over £16,000,000 worth of business and which employed over 150 people.
Once having left Acorn Alan worked on the Apple business plan for 18 months, convincing the Guardian/Auto Trader to open up their own print business. Alan became the MD of Apple Web in 1992. Apple Web was generating over £13,million worth of profit, and according to PrintWeek, a leading trade magazine, based upon turnover to profit for two years running, Apple Web was the number one print company in the U.K.
After the merger Alan became the Print Division M.D whereby Alan restructured Acorn Web and Wiltshire. Alan with the help of his team drove out over £2,000,000 worth of bad debt and credits, increased turnover with 31% less people, and delivered double figure profit growth.
Tim Peake - MD Product and Pricing
Tim joined TMG as Strategic Director in August 2005 focused on M&A and strategy development for the Group, before taking the role as MD of Overseas and Speciality Titles in 2007. Prior to joining TMG, Tim worked at Cadbury Trebor Bassett as Commercial Strategy Manager, where he undertook a strategic market assessment of the UK confectionary business. Prior to this he was a Management Consultant with A.T. Kearney working on engagements with Nestle, Bombardier Transportation, The Ford Motor Company, and Cadbury Schweppes. Tim started his career at Goldman Sachs as a Senior Analyst in the Fixed Income Division.
Craig Stevens - Group Sales Director
Craig originally joined Trader Media Group in 1996 as a General Manager for the National Magazine Division. He was then appointed as Managing Director of Ireland’s Auto Trader in 2001, with overall responsibility for both the printed publication and http://www.autotrader.ie/. For the last 11 years, Craig has worked at a management level and director level, responsible for the development of Trader Media Group’s digital strategy and growth of the Group’s trade and consumer digital products and services. Craig has now been appointed as Group Sales Director, having previously held the position of New Media Director.
Nathan Coe - MD of Strategy and Business Transformation
Nathan joined TMG 2007 as the Managing Director of Strategy and Business Transformation, responsible for developing the strategy for the business and ensuring that our key initiatives are seen through to successful execution. Prior to joining TMG, Nathan led Mergers & Acquisitions for Sensis Pty Ltd one of Australia’s leading media company’s with advertising products across multiple platforms (print, online and wireless) and multiple industries. Prior to that, Nathan worked in Corporate Development at Telstra Corporation, Australia’s leading telecommunications provider, and PricewaterhouseCoopers in Valuations and Strategy.
David McMinn - Operations Director
Dominic Collins - New Media Director
Dominic joined TMG in June 2008 as Group Director of New Media, responsibile for the range of digital product management, delivery and innovation across the group as well as the strategy and management of all websites. Prior to joining TMG, Dominic was Director of Online Products & Services at B Sky B Ltd where he was responsible for product management, search, business intelligence and marketing across all Sky’s websites including the portal and services supporting Sky Broadband. Before Sky, Dominic’s background was in media and publishing including start-up Commercial Director at Buongiorno (an international mobile and email marketing company) and Group Advertisement Director at the National Magazine Company.
