Peter Harkness

Peter Harkness
Born	Peter Martin Harkness May 1949 (age 68) Hoylake, Wirral
Nationality	British
Occupation	entrepreneur and investor

Peter Martin Harkness (b. May 1949) is a media entrepreneur and investor. Formerly a journalist, he is chairman of the publishing and e-commerce group My Time Media Holdings which he co-founded and owns with CEO Owen Davies and has been chairman since 2008 of the listed investment fund Chrysalis VCT He has been chairman of the global travel media group Ink Global since 2014. He is senior independent director of the AIM-listed business data specialist GlobalData plc. Harkness is also chairman of The Cheltenham Trust, an arts charity that manages five iconic arts, performance and leisure venues in Cheltenham.

Born in Hoylake, Wirral, he attended grammar schools in Stanley, County Durham and Rugeley, Staffordshire, but left school at 16 to become an apprentice in a newspaper office.

After a 15 year spell as a journalist in the West Midlands, Harkness was deputy editor of the Sunday Mercury when he switched to newspaper management and became managing director of the London Newspaper Group, which he acquired from his employers Yattendon Investment Trust in a 1985 management buy-out. Subsequently he has led management teams which have acquired and sold a series of media companies. These include the Butler Group, sold to Datamonitor for £11m; the Midlands magazine group WHY Publications sold to the Daily Mail group for £14m and Precise Media, sold to Phoenix Equity Partners for £42m.

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