About Us

Since 1974, Dorling Kindersley has published an extensive range of internationally acclaimed titles for adults and children. As the UK's market leader in illustrated non-fiction, we pride ourselves on creating books that combine comprehensive information and superb design.

Over the years, as the world's leading family illustrated publisher, we have inspired and informed readers who find DK books to be educational, distinctive and of consistently high quality. We value this reputation and will continue to create reference titles that are, without question, exceptional.

Our CEO

"DK is the world's leading publisher of illustrated reference books. Our books inspire and teach people of all ages by using design, illustration and photography to make ideas come alive. For almost every subject that touches your life, we offer guides that are practical, elegant, entertaining and incredibly useful. Perhaps that's why our books can be found in almost every language and in almost every country in the world. Seeing is believing!"

Gary, an experienced publisher with strengths in sales, marketing and new business creation, joined DK as CEO in July 2005.  He has held almost all functional roles in publishing including sales, marketing, editorial and general management. 

Gary’s publishing career began as a college textbook sales representative in 1986 with Prentice Hall College, a division of Simon & Schuster, where he was promoted to the position of marketing manager for the business list and served as editor for Prentice Hall’s computing books, before working for a short time in the software industry.

Gary returned to Prentice Hall as Director of Marketing for Science, Engineering, Computer Science and Math, a position he held for five years.  In 1995, Gary was named National Sales Manager for Prentice Hall College, a position he held for four years before being promoted to co-president of Prentice Hall, retaining leadership of the sales organization, but also managing their growing vocational publishing business. 

In late 2001, Gary moved to trade publishing, as President and CEO of Pearson Technology Group (PTG), the world’s largest professional and consumer publisher for technology-related topics.  He launched several new businesses and series, including Wharton Press, a new trade business imprint with an emphasis on thought leadership, Pi Press, a consumer science imprint, and IBM press, the exclusive publishing imprint for IBM-related products and strategies.

Brady Games was another key source of growth. Brady is the leading publishing of licensed strategy guides and has relationships with well-known game companies like Square, Activision, TakeTwo Interactive and Sony.

In 2004, Gary left PTG to become Chief Marketing Officer for Pearson Higher Education, International and Professional.  In this role, he managed Higher Ed’s sales and marketing strategies, as well as their International Markets and Third Party rights sales.

Gary attended the University of Oregon and was graduated from Stanford University with a degree in English and emphasis on Medieval Literature and Economics.

He is married to Jean Godfrey-June, a magazine editor for Lucky Magazine.  They have two children.