Nick Powell

Nick Powell

Managing Director EMEA

Nick Powell Managing Director EMEA

Joining the team in January 2023, Nick serves as Managing Director for the EMEA region. Nick is a strategic, entrepreneurial, and dynamic leader with a proven track record in developing company strategy and driving commercial growth across events and multimedia. Nick is extremely passionate about culture development, people management and his teams embedding themselves in the communities they serve.

Nick has an extensive media background, having launched and grown, exhibitions, conferences, awards programs, magazines both print and digital, as well as other relevant digital media services. He was a key member of the Easyfairs UK management team which grew their UK business from a handful of events to seeing the company become one of the top 20 revenue generating events companies globally, including spearheading the launch of new events in the Asian & Middle Eastern markets. Following his time at Easyfairs, Nick moved to the Middle East where he ran the Daily Mail Group’s events business in Egypt, Qatar & Saudi Arabia, working closely with the national governments of these countries in launching events to accompany their nations’ strategic visions across multiple sectors. Most recently, after relocating back to the UK, Nick launched a brand-new division comprised of several HR events for CloserStill Media. Within a year, these launch events became market leaders in the UK & France and were left well positioned for further global expansion. 

Nick holds a BA (Hons) in Events Management from the University of Gloucestershire and lives with his family in Wiltshire, UK.