TMA joined with Aevitas Creative Management in 2019. Before starting TMA, Toby founded Atlantic Books Limited, where he served as chief executive and publisher from 2000 to 2014. Since 2015, Toby has been Executive Director of the Baillie Gifford Prize for non-fiction, the most prestigious non-fiction book prize in the UK. He is also chair of trustees of Wimbledon BookFest, a registered charity; a partner at the management and communications consultancy Jericho Chambers; chair of the advisory board of the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award; and an ambassador for the knowledge networking company, Editorial Intelligence. He was a non-executive director of Prospect Publishing Limited for 10 years, where he was also a contributing editor and editorial board member. He has been on the advisory boards of two think-tanks, the Legatum Institute and Demos and has appeared regularly on the Evening Standard’s list of London’s 1,000 Most Influential People. In 2016, he appeared in Esquire magazine’s list of Britain’s 100 ‘Most Connected’ men. He is a Patron of the National Festival of the Humanities, and a former Chair of the Advisory Board of the Sunday Times Short Story Prize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"class_list":["post-936888","agent","type-agent","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n