About Incisive Media
We are an award-winning business to business digital media and events business. We inspire, connect and inform through our market-leading brands.
What drives us
We are defined by our values – we pride ourselves on our entrepreneurial culture, laser-like focus on customers and our ability to constantly adapt to the ever-changing digital information marketplace. It is our mission to inform and innovate with integrity, honesty and fairness.
Our promise to you
Our business is about people and relationships and we strive to provide the very best service to our audiences and our clients. Our processes are built around the principle that dealing with Incisive Media should be easy, friendly, straightforward and professional.
Amazing brands
Our audiences and their preferences are the drivers for the way that we create and manage our products and services. Everyone that works at Incisive is deeply embedded in the markets that they serve and we continually talk to our audiences to better understand their needs and the issues that are affecting their working lives.
The Incisive Media team
Jonathon Whiteley
CEO
As CEO Jonathon is responsible for the strategic...
Leighton Newbury
CFO
Leighton joined Incisive Media over twenty years ago...
Today, Leighton is responsible for the group financial management and operations of the business including finance, legal, property and IT. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants.
Emma Cutbill
Head of HR
Emma heads up our HR function, overseeing the...
Kevin Sinclair
Managing Director, Financial Media
Kevin joined Incisive Media in 2000, and held...
Sophie Eke
Chief marketing officer
Sophie joined Incisive Media in 2007 and is...
Alan Loader
Managing Director, Tech Media
Alan joined the company in 2002. He is...
Robin Shute
Operations Director
Robin joined the business in 2015 and leads...
Paul Harvey
Chief revenue officer
Paul joined the company in 1999. He is...
Jonathan Stapleton
Editor, Professional Pensions
Jonathan has over 17 years' experience in journalism,...
Katrina Lloyd
Editor in Chief, Investment Week
Katrina is editor-in-chief of our flagship financial brand,...
Lauren Mason
Editor, Investment Week
Lauren has been editor of Investment Week since...
Prior to this, Lauren was an investment writer for FundCalibre and Chelsea Financial Services, where she wrote investment articles and columns, and collated research, for both national and trade publications.
Having initially cut her teeth as a journalist at local newspapers in both Devon and South London, Lauren began her career in financial journalism at FE Trustnet, where she specialised in research and data-based articles focusing on actively managed funds as well as broader macroeconomic topics.
She has a degree in English Literature with Creative Writing from the University of Surrey and an NCTJ Gold Standard diploma from News Associates, Wimbledon.
Nima Green
Editor, Channel Partner Insight
Nima Sherpa Green is a British/Sherpa journalist and...
Nima has a multimedia background in newsrooms across the world, as a commissioning editor at The African Business Magazine; producing at the Russian World Radio Service London Bureau; and reporting at Vice Magazine and the Herald Sun in Australia.
She has an MA in Journalism from Monash University, Melbourne, and a BA in Southern African political history from the University of Sheffield.
Her work has appeared in Vice Magazine, The African Business Magazine, The Guardian, Sputnik News, The Herald Sun, Hipmunk Travel, and Urban Adventures.
Nima was born in Kathmandu, Nepal, and has lived and worked in Uganda, South Africa and Australia.
Stuart Sumner
Editorial Director, Computing
Stuart is Editorial Director of Incisive Media's technology...
James Murray
Editor in Chief, Business Green
James Murray is editor-in-chief of BusinessGreen and one...
Josh Budd
Editor, CRN
Josh Budd is editor of CRN. He joined...
As editor, Josh leads the editorial strategy of CRN and writes news, analysis and opinion pieces on trends and issues shaping the IT channel in the UK.
Before joining Incisive Media, he completed an NCTJ in Multimedia Journalism at News Associates and a Master's degree in English Literature at University College London.
David Cowan
Managing Director, The Financial Services Forum
David has a career track record in senior...
John Brazier
Editor, COVER
John Brazier is an experienced B2B journalist and...
Mark Battersby
Editor, International Investment
Mark is a highly experienced financial journalist with...
Alex Sword
Editor, Financial Services Forum
Alex Sword is the editor of the Financial...
Hope William-Smith
Editor, Professional Adviser
Hope William-Smith is editor at Professional Adviser. She...
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People are by far our most important asset and our staff play the leading role in our success. Become part of our team and work in a supportive and entrepreneurial environment that encourages and nurtures innovation.
Digital Publisher of the Year
Incisive Media has been awarded the AOP Digital Publisher of the Year title a record five times in 2010, 2013, 2016, 2017 and 2020. We are also the current PPA Connect Grand Prix event organiser, awarded for Outstanding Contribution to the sector.
AOP employer of the year award 2020
Citing the employer of the year award, the judges thought that Incisive Media had made impressive progress in their quest to make their company a supportive place to work. A highlight was their achievement in not having a gender pay gap.
AOP B2B publisher of the year 2010, 2013, 2016, 2017 and 2020
We have been awarded the coveted AOP Digital Publisher of the Year title a record five times in 2010, 2013, 2016 and 2017 and 2020. We are also the current holder of the PPA Connect Grand Prix event organiser accolade, awarded for an outstanding contribution to the sector.
Incisive Media are supporters of
Sustainability
A responsible approach to the environment is essential to ensure the future sustainability of our business and the role that we play in the communities that we serve. Our view is that care for the environment goes hand in hand with our work as a media business. We continually develop and revise our sustainability approach to satisfy our ambitions, and encourage and empower everyone who works at Incisive Media to be aware of how the work we do affects wider society.
Diversity and inclusion
Incisive Media strives to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people regardless of their social background, age, sex, ethnicity, religion/belief or disability and to make use of their talents. Diversity at Incisive Media means valuing everyone as an individual.
About the foundation
The Incisive Media Foundation partners with local and international charities that aim to improve the education and career opportunities among disadvantaged people, raising significant funds for those charities through Incisive Media’s portfolio of client events. The Foundation also seeks to provide a framework through which staff can volunteer a small amount of their time to contribute their skills and make a meaningful difference to the lives of others.
The history of Incisive Media
1995
