David Neill

David Neill is one of the founder members of Meridian Publications and is responsible for overseeing all the sales and marketing including the securing of new business. Prior to setting up Meridian, as a freelance he helped launch the IATA Business Reports, a supplement to IATA magazine Airlines International.

Previous employment was with Mediafine, a leading publisher of airport and seaport yearbooks with a worldwide client base. He worked for over 10 years with this company, travelling and selling advertising to major global companies, often dealing at Board level. Before that David was the advertising manager for monthly UK publication Cheshire Life, a highly successful aspirational lifestyle magazine. With his team David achieved and maintained substantial increases in advertising revenue.

David started in the business with ITT World Directories where he was ultimately responsible for handling the key accounts in yellow pages with total revenues in excess of £1 million.