David Smith (51, British nationality) is currently ceo of Wolters Kluwer Education. He recently successfully integrated the educational publishing operations spread over six European countries into one integrated cluster. David Smith joined Wolters Kluwer in 1992. Prior to his activities as ceo of the Education cluster he was Managing Director of Stanley Thornes Publishers, a wholly owned subsidiary of Wolters Kluwer and one of the leading educational publishers in the United Kingdom. Before joining Wolters Kluwer he headed a number of businesses in the publishing and information industry.
Peter van Wel, member of the Executive Board of Wolters Kluwer, will act as interim ceo of the Education cluster until a new ceo has been appointed.
The appointment of David Smith as ceo Legal Tax & Business Europe follows the reorganization of Wolters Kluwer into five clusters and the development of each of these clusters as strategic and operational management units, as announced in March 2000. These clusters are: Legal, Tax & Business Europe (ceo David Smith as of January 1, 2001, sales eur 1.2 billion), Legal, Tax & Business North America (ceo Nancy McKinstry, sales eur 0.8 billion), Legal, Tax & Business Asia Pacific (ceo Willem van Zanten, sales eur 56 million), International Health & Science (ceo Herman Pabbruwe, sales eur 0.6 billion), and Education (interim ceo Peter van Wel as of January 1, 2001, sales eur 0.3 billion).
Wolters Kluwer (www.wolterskluwer.com) is a multinational information services company with annual revenues of more than eur 3 billion, employing 18,000 people in Europe, North America and Asia Pacific. The company's core activities are Legal, Tax & Business, International Health & Science and Education. The Wolters Kluwer shares are quoted on the Amsterdam Exchanges.