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14 November 2014
UBM plc appoints Eleanor Phillips as Group
Human Resources Director
UBM plc today announces the appointment of Eleanor Phillips as Group Human Resources
Director for UBM plc, succeeding Sally Shankland who was appointed to the role of Chief
Executive Officer of UBM Americas in September. Eleanor will report directly to UBM’s CEO Tim
Cobbold and will join UBM’s Executive Committee. Based at UBM’s London headquarters, she
takes up her new role immediately.
Eleanor will be responsible for leading UBM’s Human Resources function worldwide, working
closely with the CEO and her Executive Committee colleagues to evolve UBM’s organisation and
people strategy in support of the company’s long term corporate goals.
Eleanor is an experienced Executive Board Human Resources practitioner with wide-ranging
industry experience. She combines strong commercial appreciation with a professional background
in successfully delivering HR services to global organisations growing both organically and
acquisitively in emerging and developed economies. Most recently, Eleanor worked for almost four
years with SAP, latterly as Senior Vice President Human Resource for EMEA, where she was
responsible for providing integrated HR services to SAP’s growing European business.
Prior to this Eleanor held both regional and global roles in medium-sized, acquisitive technology
companies including Geac Corporation and Lawson Software. She originally learnt her trade in the
oil industry having worked for Mobil Oil Corporation.
Tim Cobbold, CEO of UBM plc said:
“I am very pleased to appoint Eleanor to lead UBM’s worldwide Human Resources function and to
support our growth plans as we execute on UBM’s refreshed corporate strategy. Eleanor brings
with her a proven track record of leading HR teams in businesses recognised for their operational
excellence and businesses where both agility and local entrepreneurship were key to the
company’s operating model.”
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Contacts
UBM plc
Peter Bancroft
Chantal Bradford
Director of Communications
IR Manager
Brunswick
Jon Coles, Andy Rivett-Carnac
& Craig Breheny
communications@ubm.com
chantal.bradford@ubm.com
+44 207 921 5961
+44 207 921 5943
ubm@brunswickgroup.com
+44 207 404 5959
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Notes to Editors
1. About UBM plc
UBM plc is a leading global events-led marketing services and communications company. We help
businesses do business, bringing the world’s buyers and sellers together at events, online and in
print. Our 5,000 staff in more than 20 countries are organised into specialist teams which serve
commercial and professional communities, helping them to do business and their markets to work
effectively and efficiently.
For more information, go to www.ubm.com; for UBM corporate news, follow us on Twitter at
@UBM_plc and go to http://media.ubm.com/social for more UBM social media options.
Forward looking statements
This press release contains statements which are not based on current or historical fact and which
are forward looking in nature. These forward looking statements reflect knowledge and information
available at the date of preparation of this press release and the Company undertakes no
obligation to update these forward looking statements. Such forward looking statements are
subject to known and unknown risks and uncertainties facing the Group including, without
limitation, those risks described in this press release, and other unknown future events and
circumstances which can cause results and developments to differ materially from those
anticipated. Nothing in this press release should be construed as a profit forecast.
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