Having recently launched GO27, our three-year plan to grow and optimise our business, we are pleased to now introduce a strengthened and diversified leadership team to drive momentum and delivery.
By 2027, we aim to more than double in size through a combination of innovation, expansion and fine tuning our proven strategy that we know works. These changes are about building sustainable long-term growth, and rely on stronger tech and data capabilities, tightening up and rolling out our centralised best practice model and nurturing a high-performance culture.
So, we’re delighted to welcome some new faces to our leadership team, who bring additional depth of experience and knowledge to help us do just that.
James Warsop: Chief Financial Officer
A familiar face for all of us at Hyve, James Warsop has been promoted to Chief Financial Officer. James will steer our investments and ensure financial discipline as we execute GO27. With his deep knowledge of our business and proven leadership, James is set to guide us through our exciting growth journey while keeping us firmly grounded in a balanced approach that prioritises both ambition and stability.
Hollie King: Chief Operating Officer
Leveraging her leadership experience, most recently at software company Qualtrics, Hollie will take the lead on supercharging Hyve’s operational, strategic and commercial excellence and tech and data capabilities. This will fuel our ability to better understand our customers and embed ourselves even deeper in their communities.
As we focus on delivering excellence, Hollie is professionalising our approach to metrics and measurement and driving better decision making and project management, resulting in optimised products and services.
Lisa Milburn: Executive Vice President, Global Brands
Lisa Milburn joins us as Executive Vice President of Global Brands, bringing decades of experience in commercial event leadership. She’ll be at the helm of some of our most influential events such as Shoptalk and HLTH, supporting their international expansion, and driving operational collaboration across the portfolio, strengthening their market-leading status.
These events are expanding the boundaries of our digitisation strategy and Lisa’s leadership will be crucial.
Simon Domone: Transformation Director
To ensure GO27 stays on track, we’ve appointed Simon as Transformation Director, bringing a wealth of experience from Bain & Company, Farfetch, and other top consultancies. Simon’s role is all about accountability, driving the plan forward, championing the use of data, ensuring we hit our milestones, and keeping the focus on what matters most.
Vladimir Chesnokov: Head of Integration
As Head of Integration, Vlad will ensure our recent and future acquisitions seamlessly become part of the Hyve family, with a focus on driving commercial excellence through the rollout of Hyve’s established best practices.
In addition, Vlad will ensure the learnings are two-way, adopting the best practices from our new events to apply to the wider Hyve portfolio, resulting in a continuously optimised business model.
Edward Bell: Head of Pricing
Ed joins us as Head of Pricing, bringing specialist knowledge from Pearson Ham. Ed’s mission is to bring a sharper, more strategic and commercial focus to pricing at Hyve, with us having identified this as an area of significant growth potential when designing our GO27 plan.
Partnering with our event teams, Ed will refine and optimise our pricing strategies, helping us unlock greater value across the business.
Congratulations to all as we move forward with purpose to drive growth
Our new colleagues join an already experienced and dynamic leadership team, strengthening Hyve’s foundation as the company builds a more agile, data-driven, and boundary-pushing future.
We’re on a mission to redefine the future of events and look forward to seeing the fruits of this talented team who will drive continued excellence and accelerate the pace of change across Hyve.
