Leadership
Meet the teams
The Publishing Executive is responsible for setting the publishing strategy, in support of the Royal College of Pharmacy’s vision to become the world leader in the safe and effective use of medicines.
Drawn from professional and academic publishing roles and pharmacy, the Publishing Board provide external oversight, strategic advice and objective challenge to the executive team to ensure that it delivers on business goals in support of the College’s charitable aims.
Nic Potter
MA
Managing Director
I have worked in professional services publishing for 22 years, and in sales for 25. In this time I have worked with content across all mediums, as well as software and services that promote content discovery. I am proud to be part of PhP, a leader in its field.
Kate Towers
BPharm (AU), GCClinPharm (AU)
Content Director
My clinical background is in hospital pharmacy practice – knowledge that I now use in a publishing environment. Most of my publishing career has focused on BNF and BNF for Children, working with a passionate and knowledgeable team to transition to enhanced digital delivery of our content while continuing to provide authoritative and trusted guidance to support best clinical practice. I now use that experience to work across all Pharmaceutical Press publications.
Daniel Wright
LLB
Product Director
I’m passionate about delivering and maintaining products and services that users value in their daily workflow. I’ve worked in the professional information sector for over twenty years, the last twelve in product management, getting to understand a range of customers’ and users’ needs. At the Pharmaceutical Press I head up the team that manage our award-winning products that provide high quality information and guidance to support the safe and effective use of medicine.
Jon Jarrett
ACMA CGMA
Director of Finance and Operations
I’ve worked in finance across sectors including design, commercial construction, healthcare, and publishing, and now at Pharmaceutical Press I’m most motivated by delivering profit with purpose to enable genuine, positive outcomes and impact on patient healthcare and well being.
Publishing Board
Tom Moloney
Non-Executive Board Chair
I have enjoyed a varied and successful leadership career, largely in and around media and information businesses including Emap and Informa. I am now a specialist Leadership Impact Coach and Board advisor working with clients across a range of sectors such as healthcare, media, finance, and business assurance.
Karen Baxter
Interim CEO Royal College of Pharmacy
My career as a pharmacist started in hospital and progressed into education and training. This inspired a passion for how good drug information sources can support practice. This, combined with a Clinical Pharmacy MSc encompassing drug interactions, made a role with Stockley’s Drug Interactions a natural next step. What followed was a career in healthcare publishing, leading digital change programmes focussed on improving information delivery to those on the frontline.
Building on a deep understanding of publishing and having led significant change programmes to transform PhP into a more digitally focused organisation, I became managing director of PhP in 2018.
In 2022, I extended in my role to become the deputy chief executive of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS), where I used my experience of driving change and my passion for patient safety to lead and implement the organisation’s transformation into a royal college. I took up my current role as chief executive in April 2026, when RPS became the Royal College of Pharmacy.
Claire Anderson
Non-Executive Board Member | Royal College of Pharmacy Trustee Board
I am Professor of Social Pharmacy at the University of Nottingham. I was elected President of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society from 2021-2026 and led the development of the new Royal College of Pharmacy. I continue as a trustee, senate and council member of the new royal college. I am a patron and elected trustee of the Commonwealth Pharmacists Association.
My research has led and informed the development of pharmacy and pharmacy education in the UK and globally I have also set the agenda in pharmacy education research and development through work with international Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP). I have published over 200 peer reviewed papers and several book and book chapters.
I was awarded the FIP Distinguished Service Award in 2025 for exceptional leadership, my influential work in pharmacy education and workforce development, and my lasting impact on the international pharmacy community.
Sharon Cooper
Non-Executive Board Member | Chief Digital Officer, The Economist Group
I am responsible for the Economist Intelligence divisions technology, product and data delivery functions, working both on how technology will enable the company to deliver their expertise and what opportunities technology will bring to the core business in the future. Previously I was the Chief Digital Officer at BMJ Publishing Group, where I led a significant transformation programme as well as managing Editorial, Product and the technology/IT function.
Caroline McNamara
Non-Executive Board Member | Chief Commercial Officer, CABI
I have many years working as both an Executive and Non-Executive Board Member in the academic/medical publishing, and healthcare sectors both nationally and internationally. My experience includes general management, international business development and driving strategic commercial direction to grow new business. I have a sharp understanding and appreciation of both the UK and International landscape for publishing, content provision, data licencing and protection.
John Turner
Non-Executive Board Member | Royal College of Pharmacy Trustee Board
I am a Chartered Accountant and former Investment Banker. Since retiring from full-time employment a few years ago, I have redeployed my skills in the not-for-profit sector.
I am currently a Board Member of a specialist housing association, Golden Lane Housing , and a Board Member of Certitude, the largest provider of support to adults with learning difficulties or mental health issues in London, where I chair the Audit and Risk Committee. Alongside these roles, I serve as a Trustee and Treasurer of an international development charity, The Just a Drop Appeal, and of a medical charity, the British Association for Performance Arts Medicine.
Previously, I was a Trustee and Treasurer of the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine, and a member of the Finance Committee of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.