Marcus Leaver

Marcus Leaver was CEO of The Quarto Group from December 2012 and resigned his position in May 2018. At Quarto, he re-focussed the London Stock Exchange-listed Group on its intellectual property businesses; reducing debt by 20% by selling non-core activities, growing its children’s business by 165%, and its foreign language business by over 30%.

Prior to Quarto, he worked in the USA from 2005, latterly as President of Sterling Publishing, a subsidiary of Barnes & Noble. Before living and working in the US, from 1998 he worked for Chrysalis Group plc, a London Stock Exchange-listed media company, latterly as Corporate Development Director and then CEO of Chrysalis Books Group, from 2002.

Marcus graduated from the University of East Anglia with a degree in Art History and received his MBA from London Business School. He lives in London with his wife and four children.