Tim Adler

Tim Adler

Editor in Chief, Business Chief

London, England, United Kingdom
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About

A highly creative and innovative managing editor with particular strengths in writing and editing business, investment and technology-related content for entrepreneurs, investors and C-suite executives, interviewing with a variety of nationally recognised business leaders, while working closely with corporate clients to understand their goals and help achieve their objectives

Exceptional stakeholder management skills in presenting and reporting to CEOs and chief marketing officers, influencing and persuading external media and PR agencies; partnering with freelance writers, collaborating with corporate clients and liaising with internal sales and events teams

Strong leadership and management skills in coaching, mentoring and motivating experienced editorial teams through adopting an inclusive style, empowering them to do their best work

Outstanding creative and innovative skills in understanding client requirements, writing engaging content to capture the reader’s attention and using digital media and SEO to increase sales and profitability

Excellent commercial acumen combined with a strong news sense by identifying business and technology trends, researching the market and demonstrating both written and verbal communication skills

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Experience

  • BizClik Graphic

    Editor in Chief

    BizClik

    - Present 2 months

    City Of London, England, United Kingdom

    Business Chief is the monthly magazine covering all aspects of business leadership in enterprise-level companies. Our focus is on how the world's business leaders harness technical innovation to drive digital change

  • Stubben Edge

    Stubben Edge

    4 years 9 months

    • Stubben Edge Graphic

      Group Editor, Small Business, Growth Business & Information Age

      Stubben Edge

      - 1 year 10 months

      - Promoted to take over the editorial direction and management of three online publications - Small Business, Growth Business and Information Age - to decide strategy and grow circulation.
      - Achieved £1.3m turnover and grew profitability to 60% by growing organically with regular traffic and maintaining strong advertising relationships with Sage, Salesforce, Dell and PayPal.
      - Achieved a 7.3m spike in page views on SmallBusiness.co.uk during the pandemic, hitting a #1 ranking on Google…

      - Promoted to take over the editorial direction and management of three online publications - Small Business, Growth Business and Information Age - to decide strategy and grow circulation.
      - Achieved £1.3m turnover and grew profitability to 60% by growing organically with regular traffic and maintaining strong advertising relationships with Sage, Salesforce, Dell and PayPal.
      - Achieved a 7.3m spike in page views on SmallBusiness.co.uk during the pandemic, hitting a #1 ranking on Google for our Budget coverage using the search term “small business Budget”.
      - Grew the number of page visits from 300,000 per month to 1.3m within one year by having a tight focus on SEO-driven articles and exclusive interviews, including Theo Paphitis and Deborah Meaden.
      - Named by Press Gazette as a top blog for coverage of how coronavirus was affecting business, ranked alongside the BBC, Guardian and the Telegraph, the only non-national to be so included.

    • Stubben Edge Graphic

      Editor, Small Business and Growth Business

      Stubben Edge

      - 3 years

      London, United Kingdom

      - Appointed to lead the editorial for the Growth Business website covering fast growth digital start-ups and relevant business leaders and writing creative and innovative material for the readership.
      - Targeted and researched venture capitalists and investors with a view to being interviewed either in person or remotely with interviews promoted through LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.
      - Interviewees included Rishi Sunak and Lord Jim O’Neill, former chief economist at Goldman Sachs.

  • Telegraph Media Group Graphic

    Commissioning Editor

    Telegraph Media Group

    - 3 years 5 months

    London, United Kingdom

    - Appointed to manage multiplatform editorial for Telegraph Spark, the paper’s content marketing arm, overseeing campaigns for both print and digital and working with clients on branded content campaigns.
    - Generated £23.5m in revenue at the Telegraph working with advertising partners including Esso, Schroders and CrossCountry Trains to generate thought leadership campaigns.
    - Won a Housebuiler Award for producing the year’s best marketing initiative for McCarthy & Stone, editing six…

    - Appointed to manage multiplatform editorial for Telegraph Spark, the paper’s content marketing arm, overseeing campaigns for both print and digital and working with clients on branded content campaigns.
    - Generated £23.5m in revenue at the Telegraph working with advertising partners including Esso, Schroders and CrossCountry Trains to generate thought leadership campaigns.
    - Won a Housebuiler Award for producing the year’s best marketing initiative for McCarthy & Stone, editing six issues of Positive Retirement magazine, distributed monthly with the Daily Telegraph.
    - Over-delivered by 300% on the number of page views promised on a branded content campaign for Bentley cars by using innovative digital website UX.

  • Lyonsdown Graphic

    Deputy Editor

    Lyonsdown

    - 10 months

    London, United Kingdom

    - Appointed to edit a fortnightly print and online magazine distributed with The Sunday Telegraph featuring exclusive interviews with business leaders, entrepreneurs and futurologists.
    - Exclusive interview with reclusive businesswoman Amanda Staveley, subsequently reprinted in City AM.

  • Centaur Media Plc Graphic

    Head of Research, Marketing and Creative

    Centaur Media Plc

    - 1 year 3 months

    London

    - Researched and wrote whitepapers for B2B clients including SAS analytics software, interrogating marketing spend by brands by interviewing senior marketing leaders at FMCG brands over their future budgets.
    - Developed the Vision 100 event, researching the Top 100 movers and shakers in the marketing industry.

  • Freelance journalist/author

    Freelance

    - 11 months

    London

    Set up as a freelancer to write business content in a variety of publications, including co-authoring the prestigious annual PwC Global Media and Entertainment Outlook report forecasting expenditure on media.

  • Deadline Hollywood Graphic

    London Editor

    Deadline Hollywood

    - 1 year 11 months

    London, England, United Kingdom

    - Appointed to run a new office in London for the US news website to provide exclusive content, to write features and break numerous stories subsequently picked up by nationals.
    - Named by TIME magazine as one of the best blogs 2011 by revolutionising the way the entertainment industry was being reported, offering first class journalism and a variety of scoops.

Education

Publications

  • The House of Redgrave

    Aurum

    ***** The Daily Telegraph. The Sunday Times described "The House of Redgrave" -- a family portrait of the Redgrave acting dynasty -- as "compulsively readable ... well written, extensively researched" while The Mail On Sunday called it "dazzling".

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  • Hollywood and the Mob

    Bloomsbury

    Hollywood and the Mob is a gloriously technicolour exposé of the sometimes dangerous, often shadowy, and occasionally glamorous relationship between the Mafia and the Hollywood film industry. Book of the Week in The Mail On Sunday and Critic's Choice in The Daily Mail.

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  • The Producers: Money, Movies and Who Calls the Shots

    Methuen

    An insightful, anecdote-filled history of the film industry, and an examination of the role of the men or women whose job it is to deliver a dramatic and commercial success.

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