Sharon Cooper, Chief Digital Officer, The Economist

Sharon Cooper is a dynamic and respected digital transformation expert in SME information businesses. She is currently leading a major systems rebuild at the Economist Group, where she is the Chief Digital Officer for their B2B Economist Intelligence division. Sharon is also a Non-Executive Director of Pharmaceutical Press, Chair of the Royal Society of Chemistry Technology Advisory Board, a member of the RSC Finance and Resource Board. She is also a school governor and a trustee for the Ectodermal Dysplasia Society.

Prior to The Economist Group, Sharon was the Chief Digital Officer at BMJ Publishing Group, where she led a significant transformation programme as well as managing Editorial, Product and the technology/IT function.

Her career has spanned 25 years in media and the public sector where she was an inaugural member of the team who built the Government Digital Service (GDS) and developed one of the first digital exemplar public services, the Lasting Power of Attorney.

Nick Morgan, Senior Adviser, Collingwood Advisory, Non Executive Director, Institution of Engineering and Technology

Nick has worked in B2B media, data and research for more than 30 years as a senior leader in firms as diverse as Fitch Solutions, CRU Group and Emap Communications.

With proven experience in creating value and driving growth, he has focussed on subscriptions and digital transformations, sustained by a strongly held belief in the key role people and culture play in business success. Nick holds a first degree from Oxford and completed the Senior Executive Programme at Stanford University.

Andy Baker, Practice Lead, B2B Information, Collingwood Advisory (moderator)

Andy joined Centaur plc as Managing Director of The Lawyer in 2017, and was a member of the 5-strong Centaur Executive Committee. Under his direction, The Lawyer became a market-leading subscription and information business, based on double-digit increases in subscriber usage, outstanding retention rates and yield increases, market penetration gains and new data-led product development.

Previously, Andy spent 6 years as Managing Director of HSJ, the Health Service Journal. Andy led the team that transformed HSJ from advertising to subscriptions-based, from print-centric to digital-only, and from declining performance to healthy growth. Andy led the sale of HSJ from Ascential plc to Wilmington plc for £19m in early 2017. Andy holds a first degree from Oxford and an MBA from IMD, Switzerland