Matt Bishop

Matt Bishop, who was born in London in 1962, is Group Director of Communications and Public Relations for McLaren, which position he took up in January 2008.

He works closely with the 2009 Formula One World Champion Jenson Button, Button's team-mate at McLaren the 2005 and 2006 Formula One World Champion Fernando Alonso, the McLaren team's test and reserve driver Stoffel Vandoorne, McLaren Technology Group Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Ron Dennis and the McLaren Formula One team's Racing Director and Chief Operating Officer, Eric Boullier and Jonathan Neale. Bishop used to work closely with the 2008 Formula One World Champion Lewis Hamilton, before Hamilton left McLaren to join Mercedes-Benz at the end of the 2012 Formula One season.

Previously, Bishop had been Editor in Chief of the Formula One magazine F1 Racing.[1]

He took on the editorship of F1 Racing in December 1996 and left it in December 2007, by which time F1 Racing had become the world's best-selling grand prix magazine, according to its own strap-line which appears on its front cover every month.

Bishop introduced a series of celebrity columnists to F1 Racing, including Murray Walker, Damon Hill, Jenson Button and many more.

in 2014 Bishop co-authored with the 1972 and 1974 Formula One World Champion Emerson Fittipaldi the autobiographical work 'Emmo: a Racer's Soul', published by Haymarket Media Group.

Bishop is known in Formula One circles as 'The Bish' and is known for his larger-than-life wardrobe that includes a seemingly limitless number of very garish shirts.

Bishop's journalism was published in F1 Racing and Autosport.com, for which he used to write a famously trenchant fortnightly column entitled 'From the Pulpit'.[2]

On 26 September 2007 it was announced that Bishop would leave Haymarket, publisher of F1 Racing and Autosport, to become Group Head of Communications and Public Relations for McLaren, effective January 2008.[2]

Bishop's father is the US-born concert pianist, Stephen Kovacevich. His mother is the late Bernardine Bishop, a noted British psychotherapist and novelist.[3] Bishop attended the Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School in Holland Park, London.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Elliott, Debbie. "Formula 1 Racing Legend Announces Retirement". NPR. Retrieved 13 September 2007.
  2. 1 2 Goren, Biranit (26 September 2007). "McLaren appoint Bishop as head of PR". autosport.com. Haymarket. Retrieved 26 September 2007.
  3. ↑ Tumulty, Desmond (5 July 2013). "Bernardine Bishop obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 July 2013.
  4. ↑ http://unitedagents.co.uk/bernardine-bishop


This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 4/13/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.