Times raids FT and Bloomberg for commercial appointments

by Staff, Brand Republic 10-Aug-05, 11:00

LONDON - Times Newspapers has named Jonathan Slade as its new category manager for communications and and Rupert Eve as client sales controller for B2B.

Slade joins TNL from the Financial Times where he was head of technology advertising and responsible for the representation of the FT print, online and conference portfolio to the technology and telecoms advertising base.

He will be responsible for managing all of Times Newspapers' technology and telecoms clients across The Times, The Sunday Times and Times Online.

Eve joins from Bloomberg Markets Magazine, where he was advertising director responsible for all blue-chip companies and financial institutions. He will manage all business and financial advertisers for Times Newspapers.

Ian Clark, advertising director at Times Newspapers, said: "We are delighted to welcome Jonathan and Rupert, who join us with a wealth of experience in their fields. We believe that our advertising clients in the business and technology sectors will benefit significantly from having dedicated specialists designing effective campaigns to meet their objectives."

Additionally, TNL has appointed data specialist Broadsystem to manage its subscriptions programme. The appointment is part of the company's strategy to position data at the heart of the business and to continue to develop subscriptions as a key part of The Times and The Sunday Times strategy.

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