Charlie Redmayne

Charlie Redmayne is the Executive Vice President, Chief Digital Officer of HarperCollins, a subsidiary of News Corporation.  He is responsible for the overall strategy, development and management of all digital initiatives aimed directly at the consumer across all of HarperCollins divisions. He reports to Brian Murray, President and Chief Executive Officer of HarperCollins Publishers Worldwide, and sits on the company’s executive committee.  He was appointed to this newly created position in October, 2009.

Redmayne joined HarperCollins UK in March, 2008, as Group Digital Director, from News Corp’s BSkyB, where he was Head of Commercial Partnerships for the Sky Online Business Unit.  Prior to that, he worked in advertising and marketing, founding and running the media buying company RCL Communications and big screen entertainment business Blink TV, before launching leading UK teen Internet company Mykindaplace Ltd in 2000, which he sold to BskyB in 2006.

Redmayne splits his time between London and New York.

About HarperCollins Publishers

HarperCollins, one of the largest English-language publishers in the world, is a subsidiary of News Corporation (NYSE: NWS, NWS.A; ASX: NWS, NWSLV).  Headquartered in New York, HarperCollins has publishing groups around the world including the HarperCollins General Books Group, HarperCollins Children’s Books Group, Zondervan, HarperCollins UK, HarperCollins Canada, HarperCollins Australia/New Zealand and HarperCollins India.  HarperCollins is a broad-based publisher with strengths in literary and commercial fiction, business books, children’s books, cookbooks, mystery, romance, reference, religious and spiritual books.  With nearly 200 years of history HarperCollins has published some of the world’s foremost authors and has won numerous awards including the Nobel Prize, the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award, the Newbery Medal and the Caldecott. Consistently at the forefront of innovation and technological advancement HarperCollins is the first publisher to digitize its content and create a global digital warehouse to protect the rights of its authors, meet consumer demand and generate additional business opportunities.  You can visit HarperCollins Publishers on the Internet at http://www.harpercollins.com.