Carl Barnes
Supervisory Trio - Chief Financial Officer
Carl is the Chief Financial Officer at Taylor & Francis, and has been in this post since 2018.
As a strategist, Carl works with colleagues to apply his financial and managerial acumen to remove complexity. His skills support long-term business planning and development, as well as day-to-day operational delivery. His leadership style involves equipping colleagues with clear and relevant information, and entrusting them to make informed investment and budgeting decisions.
These skills have been honed through both his training and experience as a Chartered Management Accountant. He has worked for a number of global companies in the High Tech, Fashion Retailing and Media industries in a range of commercial accounting and shared services roles. This includes serving as Senior Director of Finance and IT for GAP in Europe and Chief Finance Officer of Deutsche Post DHL Global Business Services for the UK and Ireland. He has also delivered in key roles at informa, joining in 2010 as UK Shared Services Director and moving on to work as CFO for Informa’s Knowledge and Networking Division from October 2014.
Carl’s extensive background and experience supports Taylor & Francis to fulfil our role of delivering a wide range of knowledge services.