Jon Bunting
Jon joined WH Smith News in 1994. He rose through the organisation in a variety of sales and marketing managerial roles before being promoted to the executive management team in 2001. In April 2014, Jon became Managing Director of the Connect News & Media division and, subsequently, Chief Operating Officer in September 2017, a position which spanned wider group business interests held at the time, together with Smiths News. Following his appointment as Interim Chief Executive Officer on 5 November 2019, this appointment was confirmed on 15 June 2020.
Paul Baker
Paul joined Smiths News in October 2021, bringing with him a track record of delivering strategic and operational change in fast moving environments.
As a highly experienced senior executive, with extensive and relevant financial and business transformation experience, Paul most recently held the position of Integration Director at Compass Group plc. Prior to that, he held various regional and divisional Finance Director roles within each of Compass Group, Iglo Group/ Birds Eye Limited and Cadbury Schweppes PLC.
Emma Jones
Emma joined Smiths News in January 2020. Prior to joining the business, Emma worked at Interserve, where she was head of HR Shared Services. Before this, Emma worked at Wincanton in various senior HR roles covering operations support, leadership development, system implementation and engagement. Other career highlights include roles with OCS, ICI and Veolia.
Emily McMinn
Emily joined Smiths News in 2017 as Head of Finance Business Partnering before being appointed Business Planning Director, and then Director of Strategy and Change in 2021. As Director of Strategy and Change, Emily is responsible for all business planning activity including financial forecasting, budgeting and long range planning and partnering the business on all financial matters.
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Simon Gage
Simon joined Smiths News in 1986 as a management trainee, and has subsequently held a wide variety of roles in the company. Following the demerger in 2006, Simon was made Magazine Sales Director of Smiths News in 2008 and then in 2012, Simon became Sales Director. In 2015, Simon was appointed Publisher and Retailer Services Director and Commercial Director in 2020. He’s responsible for the service offer to our existing clients and managing the trading relationships, as well as overseeing our InStore Field Marketing business.
Lucy Robertson
With a strong background in engineering and operations management, Lucy has enjoyed a career in various roles across the industrial, petrochemical and retail sectors. She has director level experience managing teams in warehousing, transport and business development, and comes with a proven track record of delivering results with the right approach to people and values in senior operations roles at Argos and Amazon. More recently, Lucy spent two years with Yodel in a transformational role as Director of Sort and Transport, and latterly with McKesson as Vice President Operations, in a role that involved maintaining and improving the pharmaceutical distribution network.
Stuart Marriner
Stuart joined Smiths News in 2008. Prior to taking up the role of Company Secretary & General Counsel, Stuart worked as a corporate finance solicitor. As a specialist in commercial and corporate law, Stuart is responsible for managing corporate governance, delivering regulatory compliance and leading the Company Secretarial and Legal functions across the company.
