Colin Morrison

Colin Morrison is a former journalist who is variously chairman and non-executive director of media, communications and marketing companies, having been a CEO of media companies in the UK, AsiaPacific and across Europe. He is also a consultant to several private equity groups.

From 2004 Until March 2008, he was Chief Executive of ACP-Natmag Magazines, a United Kingdom partnership between the National Magazine Company (owned by the Hearst Corporation) and Australian Consolidated Press and was also CEO of ACP Media UK Ltd. Having established this weekly magazines group and been CEO since its formation four years before, Morrison left after selling ACP's 50% share to Hearst/NatMags.^[1][2]

Morrison is now chairman of Royal Pharmaceutical Society Publishing, a non-executive director of Centaur Media plc, of the British National Formulary, of IPCN Ltd. ('Creating in China'), of TW Group Ltd and of eQuote Central ~Ltd, an online procurement business ^[3] and the business TV network Globelynx Ltd.

Colin Morrison has managed media businesses (magazines, newspapers, online, TV production, international licensing, B2B information and exhibitions) in the UK, across Europe and in the US and Asia–Pacific. He has been involved with managing and building partnerships and joint ventures with a large number of international media companies including Hachette, Hearst, Dennis, Disney, Ringier, Australian Consolidated Press, the BBC, Microsoft, Ziff, and Newsweek.

He was formerly deputy chief executive of Reed Business Information, Managing Director of Future Plc, CEO of Axel Springer International a director of Emap Plc and of Publishing and Broadcasting Ltd (Australia). He has worked as a journalist on newspapers and magazines variously in the UK, Ireland and the USA, and has managed print, TV and online media businesses around the world.^[4] He had been a journalist in newspapers and magazines variously in the UK, Ireland, and the United States.

He is a former chairman of Magazine Publishers of Australia (1996–99), of British Business Press (1988–93), and a former director the UK Periodical Publishers Association (1989–95 and 2001–03).

Colin Morrison is Chairman of the Royal National Children's Foundation (Patron: HRH The Princess Royal), Freeman of the City of London and liveryman of the Stationers Company, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and Fellow of the Industry Parliament Trust,^[5] and Member of the Cook Society. In his role as Chairman of the Royal National Children's Foundation (formerly the Royal Wanstead Children's Foundation) since 2001, Morrison has been campaigning for government to learn the lessons of the charity's work and what the country's best boarding schools can do to help transform the life prospects of vulnerable children.^[6] He was a member of the UK government's Pathfinder group on vulnerable children, 2007-2010.

Notes

1. ^ "NatMags unveils ACP partnership". MediaWeek (Haymarket). 29 September 2004. http://www.mediaweek.co.uk/news/223463/NatMags-unveils-ACP-partnership/. Retrieved 16 April 2010. 
2. ^ Brook, Stephen (6 March 2008). "NatMag buys out ACP". guardian.co.uk (Guardian News and Media). http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/mar/06/nationalmagazinecompany.pressandpublishing. Retrieved 16 April 2010. 
3. ^ Royal Wanstead
4. ^ Centaur Media Plc annual report
5. ^ Who's Who in Australia
6. ^ Royal Wanstead Children's Foundation

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