Hearst Magazines UK appoints Duncan Chater as chief revenue officer
Hearst Magazines UK has promoted Duncan Chater, currently group publishing director of Cosmopolitan, Red and Esquire, to chief revenue officer.
Duncan Chater
Duncan replaces Ella Dolphin, who leaves Hearst at the end of this month to join Shortlist Media as chief executive.
Reporting to Hearst Magazine UK’s chief executive Anna Jones, he will lead group commercial strategy across all platforms and for all of Hearst’s brands. He takes up his new role on 1 September.
Hearst is planning to reassign responsibility for Esquire, Cosmopolitan and Red within its existing publishing teams, and these changes will be announced in due course.
Duncan has been with Hearst since 2000 and was appointed as group publishing director, responsible for the brand development for Red, Esquire and most recently Cosmopolitan, in 2015. Duncan worked on Men’s Health for 11 years, and was also a member of the management team that launched Women’s Health in 2011.
He played a significant role in the reinvigoration of Cosmopolitan, which after an extensive overhaul reinstated itself as the highest circulating women's glossy magazine after hitting an all-time low in 2014.