Current CEO Mike Ironside is stepping down from the role at the end of June after five successful years, when he will hand over to Redican.
Redican is currently Managing Director of the Radio Advertising Bureau (RAB), where he has spent the last seven years of his career. Prior to that, he worked at Times Media as Director of Solutions, Classic FM, and a number of media agencies including Starcom Mediavest and Carat.
Commenting on the appointment, Simon Marquis, Chairman, NRS, said: “Mike will be a very hard act to follow and has given the NRS five fantastic years of energy and commitment, for which we are all extremely grateful. I am very pleased that the board saw a host of exceptionally good candidates as a potential successor, of which Simon stood out. His broad media experience, many contacts in the business, his fantastic track record at RAB, and most of all his enthusiasm to take on the NRS role, make us both excited and relieved that we have found someone with exactly the right capabilities to take NRS forward. It is a truism to say these are challenging times, but they are, and NRS needs to respond ever more intelligently to the changing needs of its stakeholders.”
Simon Redican added: “I am delighted to be joining NRS as CEO. NRS rightly has a reputation as the press industry ‘gold standard’ and I relish the opportunity of building on the great work that Mike Ironside and the rest of the team have begun with NRS PADD. The organisation has a vital role to play as it continues to quantify and contextualise the exciting growth in consumption of publisher content across myriad digital platforms.”
About NRS
NRS says: “NRS Ltd is a non-profit-making, commercial organisation funded by the NPA, PPA and IPA. Its primary role is to provide reliable and professional readership estimates of the number and nature of the people who read Britain’s newspapers and consumer magazines. Currently the survey publishes data for more than 300 newspapers, newspaper supplements and magazines, which together represent the large majority of the UK press advertising market.”
