Hugh was an independent consultant for many years before joining Rightscom. His consultancy practice covered innovation, business and technology strategies in digital media and organisational change. His clients included publishers, government departments and telecommunications and technology companies. Before becoming a consultant, Hugh held senior management positions at Longman Cartermill (Longman Group’s electronic publishing subsidiary) and Learned Information. Since joining Rightscom in 2003, Hugh has mainly worked on Publishing Market Watch, a major year-long study of competitiveness of the European publishing industries. The study is for the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Enterprise, and its objective is to identify the main issues affecting the publishing industries’ competitiveness and ability to modernise and innovate at a time of enormous change in the technical, commercial and social environments within which publishing operates. |