John Makinson chairman and chief executive officer of The Penguin Group, aged 50, joined the Pearson board in March 1996 and was finance director until June 2002. He was appointed chairman of The Penguin Group in May 2001. He is also chairman of Interactive Data Corporation and a non-executive director of George Weston Limited in Canada. pearson
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He moved to the Financial Times from Makinson Cowell, the firm that he co-founded and ran from 1989 to 1994. Makinson Cowell is a specialist independent consultancy which advises leading British companies on their relationships with the financial communi us.penguingroup.com/static/html/aboutus/bio-makinson.html