NewBay names new European management team

NewBay Media has named four new senior directors to its reorganised European team.

Andrew Wooden has been appointed Interactive Entertainment Content Director, managing the editorial for MCV, Develop, Toy News, PCR and more. Wooden is a former staff writer on MCV, and has worked on Future’s T3 publication. He was most recently publisher of PCR.

Elsewhere, Caroline Hicks has been appointed Event Director. Hicks is currently Head of TV Connect Global Events at Informa Telecoms and Media and joins on Monday, November 23rd.

Mark Rankine has also been named sales director. He is currently Advertising Sales Director at Time Inc UK. Prior to that, he was advertising sales director at Future Publishing and Account Manager and Sales Manager at Incisive Media. Rankine will be joining the business on Monday, October 26th.

Finally, James Mckeown has been named Business Entertainment Content Director

Wooden, Mckeown, Rankine and Hicks will report into NewBay Europe MD Mark Burton.

I think this is a really exciting time for NewBay Europe,” said Burton. We want to provide the best possible service to our customers and with our talented existing team and some new perspectives I am confident we will be able to achieve that goal.”