Tony Sheen
A personnel and human resources specialist, he first became involved with printing as Personnel Manager at Gale & Polden, Aldershot, then moving to Thomson Regional Newspapers with whom he spent eleven years in various HR posts in Belfast and Edinburgh.
He joined Reed International in 1981 as HR Director at Odhams, Watford. He then moved on within Reed to book publishers Hamlyn and then in 1984 to IPC Magazines.
Moved to Reed Elsevier head office in 1994 as HR Director for the UK and the ‘Rest of the World’, returning to operational HR five years later as Director for HR at Reed Business Publications in Sutton, retiring in 2001.
Brought up in South Wales, he went to university at Reading and Glasgow and then joined a large engineering company as a graduate trainee before moving into printing and publishing.