Jon joined the charity as a Trustee and Honorary Treasurer in 2004, becoming Chairman of the Investment Committee in 2007. A qualified accountant with the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, he joined the Financial Times in 1974 and worked his way up to Acting Finance Director.
Since 2003, he has been the Finance Director of Pearson Global Real Estate.
As well as having just completed one year as Chairman of The Printing Charity, he is celebrating 40 years at Pearson Plc. He started with the company at The Financial Times and had direct responsibility for preparing the accounts for St Clements Press, the FT's printing arm. This included the period when the FT was printed using hot metal at Bracken House, as well as the printworks at East India Dock in London. He is now based in Pearson's London Headquarters.
Stephen Gilbert, Chief Executive of The Printing Charity, says: "Jon was a very effective Treasurer and now Chairman. He's very keen to develop initiatives that particularly help younger people and I look forward to working with him and our Trustees to achieve our target of helping 2,000 people by 2017."
About The Printing Charity
The Printing Charity says: “Whatever a person's job is or was for three years in an organisation that produces a printed output - printing, publishing, manufacturing or operating presses, driving, advertising, graphic arts, photography, cleaning, through to making ink and recycling paper - The Printing Charity exists to help people of all ages, including dependent family members.”
