Tim Weller
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| Born | May 1961 (age 56) |
| Residence | London,and Leicestershire, United Kingdom |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Angel Investor & Chairman of Incisive Media. |
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| Spouse(s) | Jackie Weller (m. 1987) |
| Children | 3 |
Tim Weller (born May, 1961) is a British businessman and angel investor. Weller is the chairman and founder of Incisive Media, a global B2B information provider serving the financial and professional services markets.
Weller started his career at VNU Business Publications (now part of Nielsen Holdings PLC) in 1982 where he ran Computing and Datalink. He left to join Centaur Communications (now known as Centaur Media) in 1987 becoming a Director of Centaur Publishing in 1989. Weller was responsible for a number of new products at Centaur and was Publishing Director of The Lawyer and Money Marketing.
In 1994 he became Managing Director of Thomson Reuters Publishing. Upon leaving Reuters Publishing in 1994, he founded City Financial Communications in the same year and has enjoyed significant industry recognition since that time.
In 1994 Weller founded Incisive Media with James Hanbury and Nick Rapley with 13 members of staff. With an investment of £275,000 which they raised by getting six people from S. G. Warburg & Co. Investment Bank to roll over some of their bonus into an EIS, they launched their first publication Investment Week. Over 20 years grew the company into an international publishing group, spanning 27 offices employing over 2000 people with more than 100 publication titles.
Weller floated Incisive Media on the main market of the in December 2000. Apart from Incisive Media’s IPOS, Weller completed a number of acquisitions as a public company most notable was the acquisition of Risk Waters for £35m in 2003.
As a public company it was difficult to take advantage of some of the larger consolidation opportunities that existed, so in December 2006 Weller led a management buyout deal backed by Apax Partners that valued Incisive Media at almost £300 million. In August 2007 Weller completed the $630m acquisition of ALM (company) creating a group with an enterprise value of over $1 billion, and doubling the group revenues to £250m and creating a group with 2500 staff. Following the financial crisis Weller led the restructuring of the group that led to the company being split into two and the sale of The ALM business.
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