BIC Welcomes Two New Board Members 

Press Release: Thursday, 8^th January 2026, London, UK

Book Industry Communication (BIC) is pleased to announce the appointment of two new Board members, following a BIC member-wide nomination process held in late 2025. 

• Sue Kelly, Operations Director, Publiship
• Sheila Pinder, CEO, Publishing Scotland

Sue Kelly and Sheila Pinder join the 10 current Board members, bringing additional decades of diverse and valuable experience and insight from across the book industry. Their appointments reflect BIC’s ongoing commitment to both involving and representing its membership, and to supporting collaboration across the supply chain. 

Speaking of her recent appointment, Sue Kelly said: “It is a privilege to be appointed to the Board of BIC.  For the last 10 years as a member, I have admired the commitment of the organisation to the book industry.  Driving higher standards and encouraging collaboration, actively bringing the different contributors, publishers, printers, distributors, logistics providers and booksellers together to overcome challenges and create solutions. I am looking forward to being able to contribute to the future successes as we continue to create value for the stakeholders.”

Sheila Pinder stated: “BIC is a fantastic, and sometimes under-celebrated, organisation that quietly undertakes essential work from which the whole UK book industry benefits: I’m delighted to be able to join them at this time, bringing a regional perspective as well as my previous systems and supply chain experience to their governance body.”

Karina Urquhart, BIC’s Executive Director, commented “I’m delighted to welcome Sue Kelly and Sheila Pinder to the BIC Board of Directors. Sue’s extensive leadership experience in global shipping and distribution logistics, and supply chain operations, alongside Sheila’s expertise in publishing operations, systems, and strategic change, bring valuable perspectives to the Board. Their insights and experience will be key as we continue to build upon and grow BIC’s ability to support and guide the UK book industry now, and in the future.”

Finally, speaking as the Chair of the BIC Board, Jon Windus (Head of Product Leadership, NielsenIQ BookData) shared his words of support: “I am delighted that Sue and Sheila have stepped forward to strengthen the BIC Board, adding their considerable experience and insight and track record of engagement. This is a pivotal time for BIC as we work on setting our strategy for the next 3 years over the coming few months.”

Find out more about Sue and Sheila and the rest of the BIC Board on the Board of Directors page on the BIC website.  

More information about BIC’s work for the book industry, including its organisational structure can be found on the BIC website: www.bic.org.uk

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About BIC

BIC is a not-for-profit members organisation working at the heart of the UK book industry to promote supply chain efficiency in all sectors of the book world through e-commerce, best practice, training, events, and the application of standards. BIC helps organisations become more efficient, save money, become less wasteful and ultimately greener. Holding a unique position of trust, BIC facilitates UK and international industry-wide collaboration to reach agreement on dependable standards and best practice in the supply chain. 

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