Future and governance

Jon Steinberg
Chief Executive Officer

POSITION: Chief Executive

COMMITTEES: Board and Nomination

NATIONALITY: American

APPOINTED: April 2023

Jon is an experienced media executive, with a strong track record of innovation, scaling media groups and creating value. Prior to his role as CEO at Future, Jon was the President of Altice USA’s News & Advertising Division, which encompasses News 12, i24NEWS, Cheddar News, and Altice USA’s a4 Advertising unit. Jon joined Altice through the sale of Cheddar News, a digital-first innovative news company, which he founded in 2016.

Prior to Cheddar, he was the Chief Executive Officer of DailyMail.com North America, having joined from BuzzFeed where he was President & Chief Operating Officer. Jon’s early career included working at Google, where he was a Strategic Partner Development Manager, as well as the consultancy Booz Allen Hamilton.

Jon was formerly a Senior Advisor to The Raine Group, where he advised media portfolio companies on strategy and go-to-market execution.

Jon graduated with an B.A. from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and holds an M.B.A from Columbia University.

Penny Ladkin-Brand
Chief Financial and Strategy Officer

POSITION: Chief Financial and Strategy Officer

NATIONALITY: British

APPOINTED: 31 October 2021

Key skills and experience:

• Strong financial and commercial expertise

• Considerable experience of digital disruption and transformation

• Extensive M&A experience

External appointments:

Penny is a Non-Executive Chair of Next Fifteen Communications plc and a Trustee of The Media Trust. Prior to joining Future, Penny was previously Commercial Director at AutoTrader Group plc.

Education:

Penny is a chartered accountant and holds a BA in Classics from Oxford University.

Eric Harris
Chief Operating Officer

POSITION: Chief Operating Officer NATIONALITY: American APPOINTED: May 2023 Eric has over 20 years of experience in media and business operations and joined Future on 1st May 2023.  Prior to joining Future, Eric was Chief Operating Officer at Altice’s News and Advertising division and the President & COO of Cheddar News.  Eric also spent seven years at BuzzFeed and left as the Chief Business Operations Officer running all business operations. Eric is based in the US in our New York Office.

Kevin Li Ying
Chief Executive Officer

Kevin was appointed CEO in March 2025 after previously serving as Executive Vice President of the B2C division and prior to this, Chief Technology Officer since April 2016. He was previously Chief Technical Architect, leading systems and software engineering as well as all infrastructure operations across the group.

During that time, Kevin’s key achievements included the delivery of the Hawk technology – Future’s proprietary eCommerce platform and the backbone of the group’s revenue stream. Before this, he was Web Development Director at Future UK.

Kevin is originally from Mauritius, holds a BSc with honours, speaks three languages and is an ex-badminton champion.

Zack Sullivan
Chief Revenue Officer

Zack has been part of Future since April 2014, joining from Autotrader where he oversaw Commercial Operations. He has wide experience in leading global divisions of the organisation and delivering key strategic projects having worked in different functions in Future. His focus now is on sales, operations, marketing and product development within the B2C division.

Jason MacLellan
Chief Technology Officer

Jason was appointed CTO at Future in February 2024, after previously joining as Senior Vice President, Operations & IT in May 2019. Before Future, Jason spent three years as Chief Information Officer at an innovative NHS trust, where he led all aspects of information technology and programme delivery. 

Before this, Jason was the Global Head of IT Delivery at Fitness First for five years, where he was responsible for software development and business intelligence. At the start of his career, Jason spent 11 years as an IT consultant at PA Consulting, delivering digital solutions for clients as a technical lead and solutions architect. 

Lee Griffin
Senior Vice President Go.Compare

Lee joined Future in February 2021 following the acquisition of GoCo Group plc. As one of the founders of Gocompare.com he has vast experience of business development, partner relationships and product innovation. Prior to starting Gocompare.com Lee was with Admiral where he held various business critical roles, culminating in being part of the team that launched Confused.com.

Simon Collis
Senior Vice President of Content Strategy & Audience Development

Simon has over 20 years' experience in many specialist media verticals, editing magazines from 2002 and switching to a digital focus from 2014. He was named BSME Digital Editor of the Year while at Time Inc (UK) prior to joining Future as part of the acquisition of TI Media. His focus is on growing Future's websites through authentic, customer-focused content.

Rob George
Senior Vice President of eCommerce & Transformation

Rob joined Future in 2023 as SVP of eCommerce and was named SVP of eCommerce and Transformation in early 2024. Rob has spent his career working with leading retail brands, including Sainsbury’s and Argos across a range of strategy, change, marketing, digital and commercial roles and before this, started his career in strategy consulting at PwC. Rob has a wealth of experience working in retail and brings with him a strong track record of attracting customers, guiding their digital buying decisions and profitably converting them.

Neville Daniels
Managing Director, Australia

Neville qualified as a Chartered Accountant with KPMG where he worked in UK and New Zealand offices before joining Future plc in May 2001 as Financial Controller. In 2008 Neville worked on the launch of Future’s Australian business, and was made Managing Director in 2010. Since then he has overseen organic growth and acquisitions in print and digital channels for Future’s business in the APAC region.

Kevin Addley
SVP Consumer

Kevin has held a number of marketing and business roles for leading digital organisations. He joined Future in March 2023, from Audible where he was the UK Country Manager. Prior to his role at Audible, he was VP of Marketing and International Operations, responsible for all aspects of revenue growth for the UK business as well as supporting their expansion across the globe. He joined Audible from parent company Amazon, where he was responsible for its primary traffic-driving channels.

Richard Huntingford
Chair

POSITION: Independent Non-Executive Chairman

COMMITTEES: Nomination (Chair)

NATIONALITY: British

APPOINTED: December 2017 and as Chair in February 2018

Key skills and experience:

• Provides strong leadership of the Board in fulfilling its role of overseeing the development and delivery of Company strategy

• Ensures healthy debate and appropriate support for, and challenge of, executive management in their delivery of strategy by Non-Executive Directors

• Provides leadership in stakeholder relations

External appointments:

Non-Executive Director and Chair of Unite Group plc. Richard had a 20-year career at Chrysalis plc and was CEO from 2000 to 2007, following which he was Chair of Virgin Radio until its sale in 2008. More recently, he has been Non-Executive Chair of Wireless Group plc (formerly UTV Media plc) from 2012 to 2016 and Non-Executive Director of The Bankers Investment Trust plc from 2018 to 2021.

Education:

Richard is a chartered accountant (FCA), having qualified with KPMG.

Jon Steinberg
Chief Executive Officer

POSITION: Chief Executive

COMMITTEES: Board and Nomination

NATIONALITY: American

APPOINTED: April 2023

Jon is an experienced media executive, with a strong track record of innovation, scaling media groups and creating value. Prior to his role as CEO at Future, Jon was the President of Altice USA’s News & Advertising Division, which encompasses News 12, i24NEWS, Cheddar News, and Altice USA’s a4 Advertising unit. Jon joined Altice through the sale of Cheddar News, a digital-first innovative news company, which he founded in 2016.

Prior to Cheddar, he was the Chief Executive Officer of DailyMail.com North America, having joined from BuzzFeed where he was President & Chief Operating Officer. Jon’s early career included working at Google, where he was a Strategic Partner Development Manager, as well as the consultancy Booz Allen Hamilton.

Jon was formerly a Senior Advisor to The Raine Group, where he advised media portfolio companies on strategy and go-to-market execution.

Jon graduated with an B.A. from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and holds an M.B.A from Columbia University.

Penny Ladkin-Brand
Chief Financial and Strategy Officer

POSITION: Chief Financial and Strategy Officer

NATIONALITY: British

APPOINTED: 31 October 2021

Key skills and experience:

• Strong financial and commercial expertise

• Considerable experience of digital disruption and transformation

• Extensive M&A experience

External appointments:

Penny is a Non-Executive Chair of Next Fifteen Communications plc and a Trustee of The Media Trust. Prior to joining Future, Penny was previously Commercial Director at AutoTrader Group plc.

Education:

Penny is a chartered accountant and holds a BA in Classics from Oxford University.

Meredith Amdur
Independent Non-Executive Director

POSITION: Independent Non-Executive

COMMITTEES: Nomination, Audit and Risk, Responsibility

NATIONALITY: American

APPOINTED: February 2020

Key skills and experience:

• Editorial and publishing content

• Digital

• Technology platforms

• Advertising and brands

• B2B media and information/services

External appointments:

Meredith is currently Chief Executive Officer of Rhetorik, a leading data supplier to technology vendors. She was previously President and CEO of Wanted Technologies, a Canadian listed recruitment data analytics provider, and has held executive roles with Microsoft, Deloitte and DirecTV.

Education:

Meredith holds a BA from the University of North Carolina in International Studies, an MSc from the London School of Economics in Politics and an MBA in Business Administration and Management from Cornell University.

Mark Brooker
Senior Independent Non-Executive Director and Chair of the Remuneration Committee

POSITION: Independent Non-Executive

COMMITTEES: Nomination, Remuneration (Chair)

NATIONALITY: British

APPOINTED: October 2020

Key skills and experience:

• Board roles in public companies

• UK and International consumer and B2B businesses

• Digital platforms

External appointments:

Currently Non-Executive Director at PaySafe Ltd and Heathrow Airport Holdings Ltd. Mark was previously Chief Operating Officer of Trainline (formerly thetrainline.com) where he had responsibility for the UK and International consumer and B2B businesses, including the Marketing and Product functions. Mark joined Trainline from Betfair where he also held the role of COO. Prior to this, Mark spent 17 years in investment banking advising UK companies on equity capital raising and M&A, latterly as a Managing Director at Morgan Stanley.

Education:

Mark holds a Master’s degree in Engineering, Economics and Management from Oxford University.

Alan Newman
Non-Executive Director and Chair of the Audit Committee

POSITION: Independent Non-Executive

COMMITTEES: Nomination, Remuneration, Audit and Risk (Chair)

NATIONALITY: British

APPOINTED: February 2018

Key skills and experience:

• Corporate finance, accounting and audit, executive leadership, investor relations, media, telecommunications and technology, public company leadership and governance, strategy and M&A.

External appointments:

Alan is Chief Financial and Chief Operating Officer of Ebiquity plc. He was Chief Financial Officer of YouGov plc from 2008 to 2017 and before that was a Partner at Ernst & Young Business Advisory Services and at KPMG Consulting, where he worked mainly with clients in the media, telecommunications and technology sectors. He previously held corporate management roles at Pearson plc and MAI plc (now United Business Media).

Education:

Alan is a chartered accountant and has an MA in Modern Languages (French and Spanish) from Cambridge University.

Rob Hattrell
Independent Non-Executive Director

POSITION: Independent Non-Executive

COMMITTEES: Nomination, Remuneration

NATIONALITY: British

APPOINTED: October 2018

Key skills and experience:

• Digital platforms, eCommerce and online sales, retail and customer behaviour, technology, business development, executive leadership.

External appointments:

Partner, Head of Digital at TDR Capital since September 2022. Prior to TDR, he was Senior Vice President for eBay Europe in charge of the European business strategy and operations. Previously at Tesco, Rob was most recently responsible for the supermarket’s General Merchandise business across the UK and Central Europe. He has also held the position of Partner in the global retail practice at Accenture.

Education:

Rob graduated from Oxford University with a degree in Geography.

Angela Seymour-Jackson
Independent Non-Executive Director

POSITION: Independent Non-Executive

COMMITTEES: Nomination, Remuneration, Audit and Risk, Responsibility

NATIONALITY: British

APPOINTED: February 2021

Key skills and experience:

• Strong strategic understanding

• Angela has extensive experience gained from a multitude of industries and sectors, including the insurance market.

• Through her other current directorships, Angela has relevant experience with audit and remuneration committees.

External appointments:

Angela is Chair of PageGroup plc and a Non-Executive Director of Janus Henderson Group plc and Trustpilot Group plc. From December 2012 until September 2016, Angela was Managing Director of Workplace Savings at Aegon UK. She was also a member of Aegon UK’s Independent Governance Committee. Prior to joining Aegon UK, Angela held a variety of senior sales and marketing roles at Norwich Union Insurance, where she ran the direct personal lines business, General Accident, CGNU and Aviva. Angela was the Senior Adviser to Lloyds Bank (Insurance) from November 2016 to November 2017. Angela was previously a Non-Executive Director of esure Group plc, Rentokil Initial plc and GoCompare.com Group plc. Angela was Chief Executive Officer of RAC Motoring Services from 2010 to 2012 and led the sale of that business to The Carlyle Group.

Education:

Angela is a qualified marketing professional and a member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing. She holds an MSc in Marketing