Thames & Hudson
Dawn Shield is an accomplished sales and account management professional with extensive experience in the publishing and retail sectors. Currently serving as the Museum and Gallery Specialist and Territory Account Manager at Thames & Hudson since July 2008, Dawn has developed new sales channels and customized bespoke accounts for high-profile retailers in Central London. Prior to this role, Dawn held positions at Abrams & Chronicle Books LTD as a Sales Representative, maximizing growth and maintaining strategic client relationships, and at PGUK as an Account Manager, where insights into market themes drove significant sales. Earlier roles include Bookshop Manager at both John Smith & Son Group Ltd. and the Institute of Contemporary Art, where operational improvements and online growth were priorities, as well as management of new projects at Zwemmers, successfully overseeing the establishment of new gallery outlets. Dawn holds a Bachelor of Design in Ceramics and Engineering from Liverpool Hope University.
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.