The Financial Times today announced the appointment of Kelly Crompton as Senior Solutions Account Manager within the Strategic Sales Team. Based at the Financial Times’ headquarters in London, Crompton will report to Jon Slade, Head of Strategic Sales, and will work with both client and agency teams to provide creative and integrated proposals.

Crompton joins the Financial Times from News International, where she was Creative Solutions Manager for The Times, Sunday Times and TimesOnline integrated sales unit. Prior to that, Crompton was a senior media planner, first at MediaCom and then Starcom Mediavest.

Jon Slade, Head of Strategic Sales, said: “We’re delighted Kelly has joined the Strategic Sales Team at the Financial Times. Our focus is connecting brands effectively to the powerful Financial Times audience, and Kelly has a fantastic ability to get into the minds of that audience and comprehend how a brand message can work across all our platforms.”

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For further information, please contact:

Jo Crosby, Financial Times, 020 7873 3811 or jo.crosby@ft.com

About the Financial Times:

The Financial Times Group, one of the world’s leading business information companies, aims to provide a broad range of business information and services to the growing audience of internationally minded business people. The FT Group includes:

1.The Financial Times, one of the world’s leading business newspapers, is recognised internationally for its authority, integrity and accuracy. Providing extensive news, comment and analysis, the newspaper is printed in 23 cities across the globe, has a daily circulation of 426,830 (ABC figures, August 2007) and a readership of more than 1.4 million people worldwide.

2.FT.com is one of the world’s leading business information websites, and the internet partner of the FT newspaper. Since its relaunch in May 2002, the website has continued to be the definitive home for business intelligence on the web, providing an essential source of news, comment, data and analysis for the global business community. FT.com attracts 5.3 million unique monthly users (ABC electronic figures, January 2007) generating 40.4 million page views and has 100,000 subscribers.

3.The FT Group’s pan-European network of national business newspapers and online services including France’s leading business newspaper and website, Les Echos and lesechos.fr. In February 2000, the FT launched a new German language newspaper, FT Deutschland, with a fully integrated online business news and data service.

4.Through FT Interactive Data, the FT Group is one of the world’s leading sources of securities pricing and specialist financial information to global institutional, professional and individual investors. Its products include eSignal, an online realtime streaming quotation service for brokers and active traders.

5.FT Business, which produces specialist information on the retail, personal and institutional finance industries. It publishes the UK’s premier personal finance magazine, Investors Chronicle, and The Banker, Money Management and Financial Adviser for professional advisers.

6.The Mergermarket Group, whose products and services provide the global advisory and corporate communities with intelligence and analysis. With regional head offices in London, New York and Hong Kong and 200 journalists in 46 locations worldwide, reliable and validated proprietary intelligence and historical data is provided via the mergermarket, dealReporter, Debtwire and wealthmonitor on-line platforms.

7.The Financial Times Group also has a stake in a number of joint ventures, including;

•FTSE International, a joint venture with the London Stock Exchange.

•Vedomosti, Russia’s leading business newspaper and a partnership venture with Dow Jones and Independent Media

•A 50% stake in BDFM, publishers of South Africa’s leading financial newspapers and websites.

•A 50% stake in The Economist Group, which publishes the world’s leading weekly business and current affairs journal.

•A 13.85% stake in Business Standard, one of India’s leading financial newspapers.

The FT Group is part of Pearson plc, the international media group.