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ANNETTE THOMAS MICHELLE OGUNDEHIN
Chief executive, Macmillan Editor-in-chief, Elle Decoration, Real Homes, Elle Decoration Collections
She is the most powerful black Michelle Ogundehin has probably
woman in British publishing after had a bigger impact upon the look
being appointed Macmillan’s chief of British homes than any other
in 2007 – 16 years after joining the print journalist over the past
company as the cell-biology editor few years. She holds the editor-
of Nature magazine. Annette Thomas in-chief portfolio for three of the
is formidable in her fi eld. In 2007, country’s most infl uential home
the former Harvard and Yale student and workplace design magazines
was awarded the Kim Scott Walwyn – Elle Decoration, Real Homes and
prize for outstanding achievements Elle Decoration Collections, which
by a woman in publishing. Thomas was entirely her own creation. Elle
was formerly publisher of the Decoration in particular is a byword
ground-breaking Nature Reviews for elegant and classy modern
series, then managing director of design. Manchester-born Ogundehin
Nature Publishing Group, a Macmillan arm. Under her leadership, NPG initially trained as an architect. She is director of her own design
established itself as a key scholarly publisher, extending the infl uence consultancy, MO:studio, and has produced marketing campaigns for
of the Nature brand in science and medicine and developing an major retail outlets such as Harvey Nichols, Habitat and Selfridges.
enviable reputation for innovation. Thomas is a member of the board Ogundehin is a director on the V&A Enterprises board and sits on
of directors of Georg von Holtzbrinck (Macmillan’s parent company). the National Reader panel of The Queen’s Anniversary Prizes.
Infl uential because… there are very Infl uential because… the publications
few, if any, people in the UK publishing she runs have shaped the look and feel
world more powerful than Annette. of so many people’s surroundings.
HEATHER RABBATTS PENNY McDONALD
Non-executive chair, Shed Media Managing director, The Outside Organisation
After a three-year stint running An irrepressible networker with unrivalled branding skills, it is little
Millwall football club as chief wonder Penny McDonald was once again this year voted, by PR
executive/deputy chair of Millwall Week, one of the most infl uential people in PR. Her group manages
Holdings plc, Rabbatts is now at the brands and PR for stars such as P Diddy, Sir Paul
the television group that produced McCartney, Amy Winehouse and Katie Price. Outside
dramas such as Waterloo Road were also appointed to handle the PR for Michael
and Footballers’ Wives. It’s just Jackson’s record-breaking This Is It tour before
the latest addition to the Jamaica- the pop icon’s untimely death. McDonald was the
born 53-year-old’s awesome CV. fi rst black person to work as a journalist for the
Rabbatts has worked in the legal, Telegraph newspaper group, where she stayed for
public and commercial sectors 13 years before being poached to launch, as editor
across education, broadcasting, in chief, Rupert Murdoch’s most-read magazine,
media, banking and sport. She is Sky. Before Outside, she was editorial director and a
a graduate and a governor of the board member at the advertising group publicist in
London School of Economics, a barrister, an ex-chief executive of London, in charge of 12 leading brand titles.
Merton and Lambeth councils, an ex-head of education at Channel
4, an ex-BBC governor and a former director of the Bank of England.
Infl uential because…
Rabbatts is also a non-executive director of the UK Film Council,
Crossrail and the Royal Opera House.
the company
she runs looks
after the PR of
Infl uential because… her experience at so many of
the highest level across a diverse range the world’s
of sectors is hard to beat. biggest stars.
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