Mark Wood to head special-interest publisher in UK

Wood became a non-executive director at Future in April 2009 but will step down from the board when he takes up his new post as UK chief executive at the end of August. He has held a number of part-time posts since September 2008 when he resigned from ITN, where he had been chief executive for nearly six years. Since 1998 Wood had been chairman of ITN, in which Thomson Reuters has a stake.

Wood joined Reuters in 1976 and was a correspondent in Vienna, East Berlin, Moscow and Bonn between 1977 and 1987. He was editor-in-chief from 1989 to 2000 when he took charge of Reuters strategic media investments and alliances as managing director of Reuters Content Partners.

Future's biggest-selling magazines include T3, Total Film, Digital Camera, Fast Car, Classic Rock, Guitar World, Official Xbox Magazine, Official Playstation Magazine, Nintendo Power, Maximum PC and MacLife.  ■