Simon Beale

Simon Beale is a part of Judy Verses’ Research Leadership Team and leads both Research Sales and the Research Society Services business development group at Wiley. His top priority is to deliver the world’s best level of sales service to our global library and corporate customers and to develop business relationships with potential society partners, where there is mutual opportunity for strategic collaboration.

Simon has held a variety of global and regional sales and marketing leadership roles in the publishing and information industries during his thirty year career. Prior to joining Wiley, Simon was a member of the executive leadership team at ProQuest, spending seven years leading their global sales organization across academic, public, corporate and government segments, doubling revenues during a period of strong organic growth and acquisitions. Simon’s most recent role at ProQuest was as GM on the leadership team for all products and services to global Government, Public Library, K-14 segments. Simon has been with Wiley for four years and has worked with both the Knowledge & Learning business and, more recently, in the Research business.