Our Team | ||
| Management Team Roger Adshead Andrew Barriball James Howard Manuel Battista Sarah O‘Brien Geoff Hadwick | Editorial Team Mike Woof Pat Smith Colin Sowman Jason Barnes Mary Sands Guy Woodford | Sales Team Dan Emmerson Philip Woodgate Yvonne Tindall |
| Roger founded Route One Publishing in 1991 and launched World Highways magazine that year. Roger graduated as a civil engineer and majored in traffic engineering. He also worked in tunnel construction before moving into construction publishing in 1980. In his 30-year career he has attended ten Bauma and nine Intertraffic exhibitions plus many IRF, PIARC, and ITS World Meetings and Congresses. He also launched ITS International, Bridge Design & Engineering and Aggregates Business Europe magazines, plus various Chinese and Latin American editions, and numerous publications to mark landmark transportation projects. He was previously a member of the BPA European Advisory Board and is currently a member of the AEM Construction Equipment Marketing Committee. | ||
| Andrew Barriball, Managing Director and Publisher Andrew started his working life as a news reporter for the Kuwait Times daily newspaper. On leaving the Middle East he worked for The Westminster Press Group, Reed Business Publishing, IDG Communications and CMP before joining Roger Adshead at Route One as Publisher of ITS International in 1995. Andrew became a director of ROPL in 2006 and was promoted to Managing Director in 2007. Andrew remains the publisher of ITS International and is responsible for overseeing the Daily News projects at Intertraffic in Amsterdam, The ITS America Annual Meeting and The ITS World Congress. | ||
| James Howard, Internet, IT & Data Services Director | ||
| Manuel Battista, Sales Director Manuel is fluent in three languages and has over 20 years of international sales experience in B2B publishing, conferences, exhibitions and events. Prior to joining Route One in 2006, he was Group Sales Manager at Emap Communications, the business publishing division of Emap plc, in charge of sales across several magazines, conferences and events. Manuel is primarily responsible for sales on World Highways; but does work across the portfolio. Other responsibilities include being invited by several industry related associations to chair and moderate leading conferences across Europe. | ||
| Sarah O‘Brien, Marketing Director Sarah has over 18 years of international marketing experience in B2B publishing and events. Prior to joining Route One in 2010, she was the Marketing Director at Agra Informa, the commodities division of Informa, responsible for the marketing and sales of the portfolio; both publishing and events. Sarah is responsible for the marketing strategy for the Route One brands, as well as the maintenance of the company database and circulation lists. | ||
| Geoff Hadwick, Publishing Director of World Highways and Aggregate Business Europe and ROPL‘s editorial director Geoff is a widely experienced publisher and editor, having run a number of leading business-to-business publications and real-time online news and data services. He has edited seven different titles over the years (including four weeklies) and has published a dozen more. Geoff also has considerable experience of running and developing face-to-face events such as awards, conferences and debates and has won the PPA Editor of the Year, PPA Campaign of the Year and PPA Magazine of the Year awards amongst others. His event management experience includes running the UK‘s biggest annual construction industry exhibition (called SED) for 5 years, as well as an international holiday home show. He has written about all sorts of industries over the years … including the construction, road transport, oil, property, automotive, computing, healthcare, farming, motorcycle and car sectors. He is a Fellow of Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport. | ||
Mike Woof, Editor, World Highways Mike has over 20 years experience in the international business press, writing about construction and related extraction industries. Prior to joining Route One Publishing in 2005, he edited World Mining Equipment and previously worked at other leading titles such as EMAPs Construction News. He studied mechanical engineering and worked for a time as an engineer, before moving over to journalism in the late 1980s. | ||
| Patrick Smith, Editor, Aggregates Business Europe Patrick joined Route One Publishing in 1994 from the award-winning Nottingham Evening Post where he was Business Editor for seven years. Having originally worked in the construction industry, he has been a journalist for over 30 years, and is responsible for assisting in producing World Highways, other titles and special publications in Route One Publishing‘s portfolio. | ||
| Colin Sowman, Editor, ITS International Initially trained as an engineer, Colin brings more than 20 years’ experience in technical business journalism during which time he has covered the transport, shipping and construction industries. He has previously worked on Commercial Motor, Motor Ship and Contract Journal and has edited magazines in the transport and construction machinery sectors. His more recent freelancing work includes writing for a key supplier of ITS related equipment and examining the use of similar technology in the earthmoving and site preparation sphere. Colin has also regularly been a member of the Daily News editorial team reporting from key industry leading events.E-mail: itseditor@ropl.com Tel (direct): +44 1322 612063 | ||
| Jason Barnes,Technology Editor, ITS International Jason has over 15 years experience in periodical publishing, writing for both the B2B and consumer sectors. His areas of expertise include defence, metal processing, recycling and automotive componentry. Jason has recently become the Technology Editor of ITS International, to focus on the latest innovation within the sector and to explore whether present Government policy enables it to be effectively implemented, or not. He is sometimes consulted for expert opinion by the general media, including the BBC World Service. | ||
| Mary Sands, News Editor, ITS International E-mail: msands@ropl.com | ||
| Guy Woodford, Assistant Editor, World Highways & Aggregates Business Europe Guy joined Route One Publishing in 2011 after more than eight years at the Nottingham Post, where he was the Crime Correspondent. He has been a journalist for 14 years and is involved in producing World Highways, Aggregates Business Europe, and other special publications for Route One Publishing. E-mail: gwoodford@ropl.com Tel (direct): +44 115 950 8098 | ||
Daniel Emmerson, Sales Director Dan joined Route One in 2007 and has worked in an array of industry sectors in his 17 years in publishing, including Dental, Education, International Trade, Horticulture, Office Products and of course Transportation and Quarrying. In this variety of sectors he has always worked with his clients to help them achieve their marketing goals and get maximum return on their investment. Dan is primarily responsible for sales on ITS International; but does work across all ROPL brands. Dan is also our E-Business Development Manager heading up our E-Media products including the eNewsletters and websites. | ||
| Philip Woodgate, Sales Director Philip has over 25 years publishing experience. He has worked on international magazines, websites, exhibitions and conferences in many different markets. Philip is responsible for advertising revenue on Aggregates Business Europe and World Highways magazines and their associated supplements, websites and eNewsletters. | ||
| Yvonne started her publishing career at Morgan-Grampian working in sales on Building Design, Building Refurbishment, What‘s New in Building and What‘s New in Marketing. After 5 years, she moved to Australia where she worked in the fashion industry and in the Marketing Department of the Sydney Water Board. Yvonne joined Route One Publishing in 1996; she works across the portfolio on the magazines and supplements with specific responsibility for the Classified Section of World Highways. | ||
