David Prasher

MANAGING DIRECTOR

David Prasher, managing director of Haymarket Consumer Media, joined the company fresh out of the London School of Economics in 1991 as a classified sales executive for Autocar magazine.

He gained experience in various display roles on the Motoring titles before becoming the advertising manager of What Car?, and then group advertising manager in 1997. Three years later, David became the publisher of Classic & Sports Car and Motorsport News. The extra responsibility of looking after Autosport and autosport.com followed soon after. He became sales director of the Motoring Division in 2003 and was promoted onto the Haymarket Consumer Media board in 2007.

David sits on the Periodical Publisher’s Association (PPA) marketing board and Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) Leadership Council.

David is a huge sports fan (if no longer a participant) and is married with three young children.

Kevin Costello

CHIEF EXECUTIVE

Kevin Costello is chief executive of Haymarket Media Group.

After graduating in 1987, Kevin joined Reed Business Publishing as a sales executive. He moved to Bartlett Advertising in 1990, where he spent four years in a range of roles including media buying, planning and new business development.

He joined Haymarket in January 1994 as business development manager in its business division. After a period running the sales operation across a portfolio of weekly trade titles, he moved into Haymarket’s consumer division.

He then became managing director and chairman of Haymarket Consumer Media, with a portfolio of market-leading consumer brands in sectors as diverse as sport, classical music and technology.

Kevin has overseen the growth of Haymarket Network, which is now one of the top five customer publishing agencies in the UK.

In January 2010, Kevin was promoted to chief executive of Haymarket Media Group, responsible for the UK as well the Australian, German, Indian, Hong Kong and US divisions.

Additionally, he is chairman of Frontline, the UK’s market-leading sales and marketing magazine distribution company and a non-executive director of Wanderlust Ltd.

Kevin is married to Alison, has two children and is a self-proclaimed sports junkie. When not on the sidelines supporting his children he can be found at Old Trafford supporting his beloved Manchester United.

Jeremy Duckworth

DIRECTOR

Jeremy Duckworth joined Haymarket in 2005 as group finance director and successor to David Fraser, who retired after 37 years with the company.

After qualifying as a chartered accountant with Price Waterhouse, Jeremy gained considerable experience of the media world in investment banking roles over 13 years with both BZW and UBS.

He joined Haymarket from the Williams F1 Racing Team, where he was responsible for improving the financial performance of the company as it faced the challenges of the F1 industry.

Jeremy is married and has three children. His interests include golf and sailing.

Brian Freeman

DIRECTOR

Brian Freeman, FCMA, joined Haymarket as a management accountant in 1989, having worked at KPMG after graduating from Exeter University.

He became head of management accounts for Haymarket Consumer Media, joining the boards of subsidiary groups in 1994 and became a director of Haymarket Consumer Media in 1995.

He joined the board of Haymarket Media Group in 2000.

He has played a key role in setting up Haymarket’s overseas operations, and now sits as a director on the boards of most of the company’s overseas subsidiaries.

Patrick Fuller

DIRECTOR

Patrick Fuller is responsible for Haymarket’s motoring and motorsport businesses. The two divisions’ award-winning brands include What Car?, Autocar, PistonHeads, Autosport, Classic & Sports Car, F1 Racing and CAT, and generate a global print and online audience of more than eight million readers a month.

Patrick has been a publisher for eight years, working in the group’s motoring and motorsport businesses. He joined Haymarket as a journalist in 1993, working as a sub-editor on Autocar and then moving to What Car? as deputy editor. In 1997 he became editor of Autocar and produced 175 issues before becoming publisher.

Patrick graduated with an English degree from Cambridge University and spent six months selling classified advertising space before training as a journalist at a local newspaper in Kent, where he gained his NCTJ qualification and met his future wife. They now have six children. His interests include cars, football… and arguing with teenagers.

The Rt Hon the Lord Heseltine CH

DIRECTOR

Michael Ray Dibdin Heseltine was born in 1933. He was educated at Shrewsbury School and at Pembroke College, Oxford, where he read politics, philosophy and economics.

In 1957, Michael founded Haymarket, which is now one of the largest independent magazine companies in the country with extensive interests overseas.

He was a Member of the Parliament in Britain from 1966 to 2001, and a Cabinet Minister in various departments between 1979 and 1986 and between 1990 and 1997. He was Deputy Prime Minister from 1995 to 1997.

Lord Heseltine then rejoined the Haymarket Board of Directors on leaving Government in 1997, and became chairman of the Haymarket Group in March 1999 on the retirement of Lindsay Masters.

His first book, Where There’s a Will, was published in March 1987 and his second, The Challenge of Europe: Can Britain Win?, in May 1989. His political autobiography, Life in the Jungle, appeared in September 2000.

Among other awards, he has been presented with the Publicity Club of London Cup (2005), National Business Awards’ Lifetime Achievement Award (2005), and the PPA Marcus Morris Award, which recognises an exceptional career and outstanding contribution to the UK magazine industry (2003).

He is also a Fellow of the 48 Group Club, in recognition of outstanding contribution to relations with China (2003), Gold Medallist of the Institute of Sheet Metal Engineering (1999) and the Institute of Public Relations’ Presidents Medal (1998). He was made Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1991.

Lord Heseltine is also an enthusiastic gardener and has created an arboretum to house his collection of over 3000 different trees and shrubs.

Rupert Heseltine

DIRECTOR

Rupert Heseltine is executive chairman of Haymarket Media Group.

He began his publishing career in Australia in 1989, working for Peter Isaacson Publications. On his return to the UK he joined Maxwell Business Communications.

In 1994, Rupert joined Haymarket, first working on BBC Gardeners’ World Live, then going on to Car Hi-Fi in the consumer magazines division. He followed the title to Wilmington where he went on to work with Wine & Spirit International before returning to Haymarket for the launch of SkySports.

He worked on the launch of Revolution, then became advertising director for PRWeek. He was one of the launch team for the US edition of the title, spending a year and a half in New York before returning to the UK as associate publisher of the newly acquired Gramophone.

Rupert was appointed publisher of What Hi-Fi? Sound & Vision and oversaw the launch of the Daily Telegraph’s Your Money magazine.

In 2001, he became a director of Haymarket Group, the shareholders’ company chaired by Lord Heseltine, and joined the boards of Haymarket Magazines and Haymarket Business.

In 2004, he was appointed deputy chairman of Haymarket Exhibitions. In 2005 he was made deputy chairman of Haymarket Group. He was appointed to the management board of the Federation of Periodical Publishers (FIPP) in 2009.

In recent years Rupert’s primary focus has been the development of the Indian business and Haymarket’s digital presence.

Mark Jeffries

DIRECTOR

Mark Jeffries, ACMA, is director of management accounts for Haymarket Consumer Media and the Network division.

Mark originally joined Haymarket in 1994, leaving for a role at British Airways in 1996. He rejoined the company 3 years later as a management accountant, and became head of management accounts for Haymarket Consumer Media in 2001.

He became a director of Haymarket Consumer Media in 2003, with day-to-day responsibility for the financial well-being of the group. Mark also oversees the finances of Haymarket Network.

He’s a heavy consumer of historical fiction, and has a strong interest in natural history.

Bob McDowell

STRATEGY AND PLANNING DIRECTOR

Bob McDowell has been a member of the Haymarket family since he was employed as an Autocar classified sales executive in 1988.

Bob was swiftly promoted to group ad manager, publisher and then publishing director across Autocar and What Car?

In 2003, he became publishing director for Haymarket Consumer Media (HCM), shortly followed by his appointment as HCM’s circulation director.

Bob became Consumer Media’s strategy and planning director in January 2007. In this role, he is responsible for the marketing strategies of Stuff, Stuff.tv, What Hi-Fi? Sound & Vision, Classic & Sports Car, Practical Caravan, Practical Motorhome, caravan-sitefinder.co.uk, Gramophone, Car & Accessory Trader and FourFourTwo, as well as having strategic input to all Haymarket Consumer Media’s brands.

He also heads Haymarket’s Business Intelligence Unit.

In Decembre 2011, Bob was promoted to Director of strategy, planning and change.

In this newly created role, McDowell now focuses on the company’s planning and development activities throughout the UK, Europe and the USA.

Mark Payton

EDITORIAL DIRECTOR

Mark Payton studied journalism at the London College of Printing in the late 80s, before cutting his teeth for two years as a reporter with a local London newspaper.

Mark has edited in just about every specialist magazine market, including photography, motoring, music, caravanning and even personal finance. He edited Haymarket’s two flagship buyer’s guides – What Car? and What Hi-Fi? Sound and Vision – during the mid-90s, then took on Stuff when Haymarket bought the title from Dennis in 2000.

Mark become digital editorial director of Haymarket Consumer Media (HCM) in 2006, with responsibility for the editorial quality of company’s growing portfolio of websites. In 2010, he became editorial director of HCM, with responsibility for all of its print and digital content.

Mark lives in Walton-on-Thames in Surrey, and can bore for England on the subjects of gadgets and magazine data tables.