Speakers
Guy Anderson
Editor, Jane's Industry Quarterly
Guy Anderson is editor and lead analyst of Jane's Industry Quarterly. He is an award-winning journalist who has spent a decade in the industry covering financial and corporate affairs. In 2002 he moved into financial journalism, specialising in the fields of mergers & acquisitions and defence.
Guy joined Jane's Information Group in April 2005. In addition to leading Jane's Industry Quarterly, he is head of the Jane's Defence Industry daily news service (jdin.janes.com); editor of the Jane's World Defence Industry reference service; managing editor of Jane's Defence Budgets; and industry editor of Jane's Defence Weekly.
He is a research associate of the UK Defence Forum; a frequent writer of defence articles for the Royal United Services Institute; and a regular commentator on defence industrial issues in press and on television and radio.
Fenella McGerty
Jane's Defence Economics Analyst
Fenella graduated from York University in July 2007 with a BSc in Economics, working as a parliamentary researcher for John McDonnell, MP for Hayes and Harlington, before starting at Jane's in December 2008.
Moderator: Chris Bridge
Publisher, Defence Industry
Chris Bridge is responsible for Jane’s Defence Industry services. In this role he manages editorial teams responsible for covering mergers, acquisitions, teaming and joint ventures, directory publications, defence budgets, and other similar topics.
Chris started at Jane’s in 2000 working on Defence Equipment content, before moving to managed teams focused on country risk information and subsequently setting up a dedicated armed forces desk in 2005. During the past nine years Chris has worked across the entire spectrum of Jane’s offerings, including Jane’s Defence Weekly and Transport related publications.
Chariman: Sean Howe
Group Publishing Director
Sean Howe is Jane’s Group Publishing Director and together with a team of publishers leads the news, reference and analytical operations across most of the defence, security, law enforcement and transport portfolios. Sean joined Jane’s 15 years ago and, in that time, has been involved with helping to develop and launch many new products, such as the defence and terrorism intelligence centres, and has helped grow Jane’s analytical capability through his role in the acquisition of companies such as Documental Solutions in 2008.
Sean graduated from Liverpool University with a BA in Combined Arts studying, as one of his specialisms, Russian and Soviet Studies. He launched his first independently financed magazine whilst still a student before taking up a full time career within publishing as a journalist.