Timothy Waterstone, Esq

Career: Carritt Moran & Co Calcutta 1962-64, Allied Breweries plc 1965-73, W H Smith Group plc 1973-81, fndr chm and chief exec Waterstone & Co 1982-93; fndr chm HMV Media Gp plc (merged business of Waterstone's, Dillons and HMV) 1998-2001; fndr and chm Chelsea Stores Ltd (incl Daisy & Tom, and Early Learning Centre 2004) 1996-; chm Priory Investments Ltd 1990-95, dep chm Sinclair-Stevenson Publishers Ltd 1989-92; memb Bd: Futurestart (BT Venture Capital Fund) 1992-, Hill Samuel UK Emerging Cos Investment Tst plc 1996-2001, Yale Univ Press 1992-, Virago Publishers 1995-96; chm DTI Working Gp on Smaller Quoted Companies and Private Investors 1999; tstee International House 1986-92, memb Ctee Booker Prize 1986-93; chm: Princes Youth Business Tst Awards 1990, Shelter 25th Anniversary Appeal 1991-92, London Int Festival of Theatre 1990-92, The Elgar Fndn 1992-98, KCL Library Bd 1999-2002; co-fndr Bookaid 1992; dir: The Academy of Ancient Music 1990-95, The London Philharmonic Orchestra 1990-97; memb: Bd Downing Classic VCT 1998-2003, National Gallery Co 1996-2003

Books and Publications: Fiction Lilley & Chase (1994), An Imperfect Marriage (1995), A Passage of Lives (1996); Non-Fiction Swimming Against The Stream (2006)