Adrian is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and was Group Finance Director of The Stationery Office before joining Archant. He is a graduate of Imperial College, London and worked briefly as an engineer before training as an accountant at BICC plc. After qualifying, he joined the instrumentation division of Schlumberger, where he was Finance Director of a number of business units based in France. Before joining The Stationery Office he was Director – Finance Europe for Dun & Bradstreet Inc.

During the year he was appointed as a Director to the PA Group Limited and sits on the Board of the Newspaper Society.

Adrian is a governor of Norwich School and a member of the Audit Committee of the University of East Anglia.

adrian.jeakings@archant.co.uk

Brian McCarthy, 47, joined the Board as Finance Director in November 2008.

Brian is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland, having trained with Arthur Andersen in Dublin and Cambridge, and joined Archant in January 2004 as Finance Director of Archant Regional. Previously he worked as Finance Director of an environmental company and prior to that he held a series of senior finance roles in the English Language Division of Pearson Education.

He is also a Governor of the City Academy, Norwich.

brian.mccarthy@archant.co.uk

After graduating from Leeds University, he went to Unilever and started his media career with Anglia Television in 1983, then joining the East Anglian Daily Times in 1987. In 1995 he moved to Eastern Counties Newspapers Limited as Marketing Director, after which he served in a number of senior commercial roles before launching Archant Life, of which he remains a director, in 2001.

Johnny is a past UK and European Director of the International Newspaper Marketing Association and is currently a director of the Periodical Publishers Association Limited.

johnny.hustler@archant.co.uk