Thames & Hudson
Roland Mervart is an experienced finance professional currently serving as Financial Controller at Thames & Hudson since September 2019. Earlier roles include interim Financial Controller at PhotoBox and Group Financial Controller at easyHotel Plc. Roland has a diverse background from Lendlease, where responsibilities included Head of Finance for London and the UK Regions, as well as Financial Controller for Continental Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Prior to this, Roland held the position of Audit Principal at the UK National Audit Office. A career break from July 2016 to May 2017 involved intensive Spanish language training and travel in the Americas. Roland holds a BA in Psychology & Sociology from the University of Nottingham.
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.