Condé Nast builds digital team with four hires

Condé Nast, publisher of Vogue, Glamour and GQ, has made four key hires to its central digital team.

Condé Nast: announces four hires to its digital team
Condé Nast: announces four hires to its digital team

Rich Taylor has been appointed head of technology and development. He joins the company with strong experience in engineering for digital publishing, having worked previously at IPC, as well as pioneering technology sites Bit-Tech.net and TrustedReviews.com.

Tim Alexander has been appointed head of project management, and Geoff Richards joins as head of data, analytics and insight. Alexander was previously at Dennis Publishing and Richards joins from IPC.

In addition, Dan Powell-Rees joins Condé Nast from The Economist, as head of commercial operations.

Wil Harris, head of digital at Condé Nast Britain, said: "I am delighted with the rapid progress we are making across our portfolio of publications. Condé Nast's titles are brands of unparalleled quality, and with these appointments and launches we are moving quicker than ever to build on their strength in digital."

Condé Nast is keen to convey the strides it is making in the digital space, announcing that September will be the "largest ever revenue month in the history of the digital team," with growth of 15% on September 2013.

The publisher ran its first "native" advertisements for L’Oreal and Diesel, on Glamour.com and GQ.co.uk respectively, earlier this summer. 

In addition, Condé Nast Digital reports record programmatic revenue with a 308% growth from Q2 to Q3 in 2014. The growth from July to August was 235%.

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