Executive Committee
Martin Morgan
Executive Chairman
Martin Morgan has over 30 years of media and B2B experience, having spent a large proportion of his career at Daily Mail and General Trust Plc ("DMGT"). Martin was Chief Executive of DMG Information from 1989 until 2008, when he took up the role of Chief Executive from 2008 to 2016 leading DMGT's successful transformation from print to digital and expanding the business internationally. Prior to that, he held a number of senior positions at RELX Plc from 1975 to 1989. Martin is currently Chairman of Signal Media Limited and a Non-Executive Director at City of London Investment Trust, a position he has held since 2012, and was a director of Euromoney Institutional Investor plc between 2008-2016. Martin joined the Wilmington Board on 1st May 2018. Martin is acting as Executive Chairman from 13 February 2019 until a new Chief Executive Officer is appointed.
Richard Amos
Chief Financial Officer
Richard Amos joined Wilmington on 1 March 2018 and became Chief Financial Officer on 1 April 2018. Richard joins from Plant Impact plc, an AIM-listed agricultural technology business where he was CFO and Company Secretary from May 2016 to December 2017. Prior to that he was Group Finance Director of Anite plc, a main market listed technology group, from November 2009 until its sale in August 2015. Over the last 18 years he has held similar positions at a number of public and private technology companies, including Retail Decisions plc, Agilisys Holdings Ltd and VEGA Group plc. He qualified as a chartered accountant at EY in 1991 and holds an MA in Management Studies and Engineering from Cambridge University.
Bill Howarth
Divisional Director, Wilmington Risk and Compliance
Originally from a legal and academic background, Bill spent more than 30 years lecturing at universities across the world before being appointed CEO of the International Compliance Association in 2002. As the Divisional Director of Wilmington Risk and Compliance, Bill’s mandate and passion is the professionalisation of ‘Compliance’ as a discipline and bringing training, knowledge and compliance information to the financial services industry.
Tony Bainbridge
Group HR Director
Tony Bainbridge is an international and commercial HR Director with 30 years’ experience across the consumer, manufacturing, financial services, hospitality and healthcare industries.Tony’s career includes senior roles at Mars, PepsiCo, Novartis and InterContinental Hotels. He has worked for international businesses based in Poland, US, France and the UK, and was most recently based in Denmark as EVP of HR for Saxo Bank. A graduate of Durham University, his passion is in helping organisations to gain full value from their human capital – their organisation and people – ensuring that talent becomes a source of competitive advantage, and the company has the capability to attract and develop future talent.
Terry Sweeney
Divisional Director, Wilmington Professional
Terry Sweeney has 18 years' senior leadership experience in the global education sector. Prior to joining Wilmington Terry was CEO of Epigeum Ltd, a leading publisher of online programmes for higher education, which was sold to Oxford University Press in 2015. Previously Terry served as CEO for RM plc from 2008 to 2011 and CEO for Academic Partnerships International Ltd from 2012 to 2014. Terry has an engineering degree from City University and an MBA from Oxford Brookes University. In 2007 he attended the Advanced Management Programme at Harvard Business School. Terry is passionate about supporting companies and individuals achieve their goals through exceptional teaching and learning.
Thomas Mount
Chief Technology Officer
Thomas joined Wilmington on 29 October 2018 and became Chief Technology Officer on 1 January 2019. His career has been spent working in two of the UK’s largest multinational organisations, Unilever and GlaxoSmithKline, in technology roles of increasing seniority. He has held technology leadership positions supporting business teams in Sales, Marketing, Digital, R&D and Finance functions. At Unilever he supported commercial teams throughout Europe and Asia focusing on enabling teams to be more successful through deployment of technology. He joined GlaxoSmithKline in 2011 as the CIO for Consumer Healthcare R&D and Marketing – during this time he repositioned technology to drive business innovation and improve speed to market. Before joining Wilmington, his most recent role was as Global Head of Technology for Digital, Marketing & Communications at GlaxoSmithKline. He was responsible for leading the definition and execution of the global strategy for digital technologies and embedding a culture of technology innovation throughout the organisation. Thomas holds a degree in Physics from The University of Nottingham and is passionate about using technology to drive commercial and competitive advantage.