Leadership

Steve Oliver was appointed to the Board on 7 December 2020. 

He graduated from the University of Sheffield in 1992 with a degree in Psychology. In September 2000, Mr. Oliver joined Music Zone Services Limited (‘Music Zone’), firstly as Finance Director, but shortly after becoming Managing Director, a role he held until 2007. He then briefly held the role of Interim Managing Director at Famous Retail Limited, a sports memorabilia retailer, before founding musicMagpie later that year. In March 2008, he was appointed Managing Director of TFS Buying Limited (trading as The Fragrance Shop), which he left in late 2009 to focus on the Group full time.
 

Matthew joined musicMagpie from genedrive plc, an AIM-quoted molecular diagnostics company, where he has been CFO since 2016. Prior to joining genedrive, Matthew spent eight years as Group Financial Controller of Scapa Group plc, an AIM-quoted multinational manufacturing business. He previously spent three years at British Nuclear Group as Finance Manager, having trained and qualified in the audit department of Deloitte & Touche.

Ian Storey graduated from the University of Leicester in 1998 with a degree in Law (2:1). He joined Deloitte LLP in September 1998 and trained in the audit department, becoming ACA qualified in May 2001. He joined iSoft plc in September 2002 as an internal reporting accountant, and subsequently held a number of financial roles within iSoft plc, including that of Financial Controller, until his departure in December 2006. Mr. Storey joined Ultimate Products Limited in December 2006 and was promoted to Finance Director in March 2007 before moving to the role of Executive Buying Director in 2010. Mr. Storey left Ultimate Products in March 2012 and worked as a consultant until he joined musicMagpie as Commercial Finance Manager in January 2013. He was subsequently appointed to the EMGL board as Chief Financial Officer of the EMGL Group in March 2015 and will become Group Chief Operating Officer on or around the date of Admission.

Having graduated from Leeds University in 1994 with a degree in Chemistry, Jon Miller joined the Caudwell Communications Limited graduate program. Having progressed to become Head of Sales in 1999, Mr. Miller left Caudwell Communications in 2002 to become Head of Sales at Assurant Group Limited, where he secured and implemented insurance programs in the telecommunications sector. In 2007, Mr. Miller joined Brightstar Limited as Sales Director before becoming Commercial Director in 2014. In November 2016, Mr. Miller left Brightstar to become Group Managing Director of Electronics of Entertainment Magpie Limited before becoming Group Chief Commercial Officer in late 2019.

Jonathan Beirne started his career at Music Zone in June 2001, working his way up from a warehouse colleague to Logistics Manager when he left in 2007. He then joined the Group in the autumn of 2007 as Logistics Manager of Entertainment Magpie Limited before becoming Customer Service Manager in October 2008, working his way up to become Group Head of Customer in May 2020. He became Group Chief Customer Officer in December 2022. 

Rachel Coxon graduated from Keele University with a joint honors degree in Law and Human Resources in 2002, and joined Phones4u Limited in HR, progressing quickly to HR Manager thereafter. She left in 2006 to join GSH Group (George S Hall Inc), where she held several roles in the HR department, before joining Scapa Group plc in 2009. She then held a series of interim HR roles, with TalkTalk Telecom Group plc in 2010, TJX Europe (TJX Companies, Inc.) in 2011 and Home Retail Group plc in 2012. Rachel then joined Monsoon Accessorize Limited in August 2012 as a HR Business Partner, leaving to become Head of HR at Novus Property Solutions Ltd in 2015. In March 2016, she became a HR consultant working on a number of assignments, before taking an interim role with Roadchef Limited from October 2016 to May 2019. She joined EMGL as Group HR and Talent Director in July 2019 becoming Chief People Officer in February 2021.