LONDON, Thursday 20th March 2025: Emma Lowe has immediately been introduced as the brand new Director of The London E book Honest, succeeding Adam Ridgway as he goes on to retire, following a profitable 36-year-long profession in conferences and exhibitions. She is going to take up the function in July this yr. Earlier LBF Director Gareth Rapley, now Interim Portfolio Director for LBF at RX, will oversee the Honest till Emma begins in her new place.
Emma Lowe has over twenty years of expertise within the e book business. She started her profession at RX engaged on LBF latterly as Head of Gross sales, earlier than transferring on to develop into business director at The Bookseller between 2014 and 2023. After leaving the Bookseller Emma took up roles immediately throughout the business working at GlassBoxx as publishing account director, after which extra lately transferring on to HarperCollins as head of occasions. In her earlier function, Lowe was chargeable for HarperCollins’ inside and exterior company occasions, together with attendance at The London E book Honest and the Frankfurt E book Honest, together with the planning and execution of the HarperCollins creator occasion on the V&A and the pre-LBF occasion.
Throughout her tenure at The Bookseller, Lowe spearheaded occasions together with the British E book Awards, FutureBook and the Advertising and marketing & Publicity Convention, alongside of working with LBF as a part of the media partnership. At GlassBoxx, she has helped the e-commerce options supplier with its collaborations throughout the publishing business.
Gareth Rapley, Interim Portfolio Director for LBF at RX, stated: “We’re thrilled to have discovered somebody who has the distinctive mixture of expertise of RX, data of LBF and a well-rounded understanding the e book business. The previous couple of years have been a time of nice change for the Honest, following the disruption brought on by the pandemic and the continued reconstruction works at Olympia. We have absolute confidence Emma will take the Honest ahead within the coming years, making use of her intensive and first-hand data of the sector to ship a profitable truthful that continues to be related to your complete business and permits it to thrive.”
David Roche, Non-Govt Chair of The London E book Honest Advisory Board, stated: “Emma Lowe is the perfect individual to steer LBF, significantly with the resurgence of e book gala’s post-Covid and a completely operational Olympia approaching stream over the following couple of years. She has a novel set of abilities and experiences, having labored for Reed/LBF and The Bookseller, for publishing companies corporations, and within the progressive business big, HarperCollins. This mixture will likely be welcomed by the commerce, as will Emma’s empathetic character and successful persona, in addition to the soundness her appointment brings. The LBF Advisory Board and I sit up for working with Emma and her crew.”
Emma Lowe, Director of The London E book Honest, stated: “The London E book Honest was my runway into this glorious world of books and I’m delighted to be returning at such an essential second for in-person companies. We’re an business that thrives on nose to nose interplay and the moments after we come collectively are completely very important to our publishing ecosystem.
I’ve liked my yr at HarperCollins. Being a part of the dynamic crew that organised the revealing and celebration of the brand new warehouse at Robroyston was a specific spotlight and honour. I’ve discovered an infinite quantity working alongside Fiona Allen and her distinctive comms crew who I’ll miss enormously. However alternatives like this don’t come up fairly often and having gone from The Bookseller to a tech disruptor, to a giant 4 writer, I’m vastly excited to be getting again to my roots on the centre of the commerce, and reinforcing London because the pure dwelling of the worldwide rights enterprise.”
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