CURRICULUM VITAE

JULIAN P KING

SUMMARY

Commercially driven B2B media and event management executive with 30 years plus experience in organising conferences/exhibitions across 5 continents primarily serving the port, shipping, freight transport logistics and more recently cement trading and manufacture. Comfortable with formulating sales and marketing strategies at board level and have dealt at ministerial level with various overseas governments, including Russia, China, Malaysia, Qatar, Philippines, Netherlands and Singapore.

Previous and current clients include Maersk Shipping; Ports of Rotterdam, Los Angeles, Hamburg, Gothenburg, Stockholm, Antwerp and London; DHL; FL Smidth; Qatar National Cement; Holcim; Cemex.

Dealings with financial bodies and trade associations include World Bank, EBRD, Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN), Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), European Sea Ports Organisation, American Association of Ports and Harbors, ASEAN Cement Association and the Container Owners Association.

Invited speaker and moderator at the 6th Philippines Ports and Shipping Conference, February 2011 and speaker at the Chartered Institute of Transport and Logistics Convention, Malaysia June 2014.

Other skills – press releases, brochure/advertising layout/copy writing and internet content.

EDUCATION

Kingston Grammar SchoolCollege of Law, Guildford

EMPLOYMENT

1971-1975 Montague Gardner & Howard Solicitor’s clerk

1976-1978 IPC Business Press Advertising Sales Executive

1978-1987 CS Publications Ltd Advertisement Manager – Cargo Systems International

Exhibition Manager – Container Technology, Terminal Operations Conference, Coaltrans.

1987-1994 Formed Container Congresses International Ltd

Organised specialist port, shipping and logistics conferences and exhibitions in Paris (1988), Hong Kong (1989), Copenhagen (1990) Kuala Lumpur (1991), Rotterdam (1992), New Orleans (1989-1991) Budapest (1991) and Houston (1992-1993).

1994-1995 Euromoney Ltd

Conference and Event Manager – organised and managed events in Budapest, Varna and Kuala Lumpur

1996-2001 ITE Group PLCDivisional Director – Transport Division

Event Director for Russia’s largest transport exhibition (TransRussia 1998-2001) held annually in Moscow together with spin off events in Kazakhstan (TransKazakhstan 1999-2001) and Turkey (TransEurAsia (2001).

Jan 2002 Formed EWP Communications Ltd.

Co-founder of the GreenPort series of conferences in collaboration with the European Sea Ports Organisation. Antwerp (2006), Lisbon (2007), Amsterdam (2008), Naples (2009), Stockholm (2010)

Founder of the Danube Summit in 2001 in collaboration with Via Donau (subsidiary of the Austrian Ministry of Transport.) . Events held in Constanta (2002 and 2008), Belgrade (2004), Budapest (2006), and Linz (2010)

Co-organised Yangzte Shipping Summit in Wuhan (2009), jointly with the Dutch and Chinese Ministries of Transport

Hosted international port study tours to UK, Belgium, Netherlands (2008); Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden (2010) and USA (2010)

Managed trade exhibitions for the Container Owners Association and the International Tank Container Owners Association. Coordinated members, designed exhibition stands and arranged on site press briefings for events in Copenhagen, Hamburg, Bilbao, Amsterdam and Shanghai.

EWP sold to Mercator Media Ltd (September 2010)

2011- Present Independent Event Management Consultant

2011 – 2012 Transport Events Ltd, Malaysia. Developing conference programmes and chairing/speaking at international port and shipping events in Manila (2011) Mauritius (2012), and Durban (2012)

2012 – 2013 ECO Sustainable Logistics Chain Foundation Adviser to the Board Marketing and management of port and logistics training programmes

August 2013 – present INTERCEM Conferences Commercial Manager responsible for event marketing, sponsorship, exhibition sales, event budgets and liaison with trade associations. Travelled extensively in USA, Africa, Asia and Middle East during 2013 to June 2015.

INTERESTS

Hockey, cycling, attending sporting events and the theatreJuly-September 2012 Games Maker at the 2012 London Olympics and Paralympics