Thames & Hudson
Ben Gutcher has a diverse work experience in the publishing industry. Ben started their career as an Assistant Manager at Ottakar's plc before joining Hachette UK as a Graduate Trainee. Ben then worked at Hodder & Stoughton, where they held various roles such as Key Account Manager, Digital Key Account Director, and Sales Director for John Murray Press. During their time at Hodder & Stoughton, they had budgetary responsibility for a £16m division and played a vital role in developing sales strategies. Ben also worked at Thames & Hudson as the Head of UK Sales. Additionally, Ben has served in committee roles, including Welfare & Housing Committee Member at THE BOOK TRADE CHARITY (BTBS), Steering Committee Member at Book Industry Communication Ltd, Steering Committee Member at Fiction Uncovered, and Trustee at Matthew Hodder Charitable Trust.
Ben Gutcher attended the University of Hull from 1998 to 2001, where they pursued a LLB Law (Hons) degree. Ben successfully completed their undergraduate studies and achieved a degree classification of 2.i.
Thames & Hudson
Thames & Hudson was founded in 1949 by Walter and Eva Neurath. Their passion and mission was to create a ‘museum without walls’ and to make accessible to a large reading public the world of art and the research of top scholars. To reflect its international outlook the name for the company linked the rivers flowing through London and New York, represented in its logo by two dolphins symbolizing friendship and intelligence, one facing east, one west, suggesting a connection between the Old World and the New. Today, still an independent, family-owned company, Thames & Hudson is one of the world’s leading publishers of illustrated books with over 2,000 titles in print. We publish high-quality books across all areas of visual creativity: the arts (fine, applied, decorative, performing), architecture, design, photography, fashion, film and music, and also archaeology, history and popular culture. Our children’s books list is also expanding. Headquartered in London, we have a sister company in New York and subsidiaries in Melbourne, Singapore and Hong Kong. In Paris, a further subsidiary company, Interart, distributes English-language books in France.