Spencer Green, GDS International - going places

Spencer Green was schooled at Millfield School and learned law at Kings College, London. In his early days, he played for Wales at rugby and tennis in the UK National Under-18 teams and played junior-grade Wimbledon.

Spencer’s pursuit in business media started at Millfield and was amalgamated at the university, where he produced three framework business titles and sold them to a leading UK publisher.

Spencer got together with Sterling Publications in 1990 as a Sales Executive, then Sales Manager, and facilitated them to successfully sustain over ten business-to-business titles during his term with Sterling.

Spencer Green founded GDS Publishing Ltd in October 1993 to specialise in industrial, government-led publications for the growing Chinese market. The company established over forty business-to-business titles, was featured alongside Tony Blair on China’s national news as ‘best for Chinese business’, and – following a move into India – deemed to be ‘of national importance’ by the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade.

In 1998, GDS Publishing became GDS International and established its foremost conference, Enterprise China. The enormously booming Enterprise series of conferences was rolled across China and Latin America in the next two years.

In 2000, GDS International established its first Senior Executive Summit under the ‘Next Generation’ banner. This became the accelerator for ten years of rapid growth (GDS grew 40% in 2010). In 2011, GDS will hold over 70 Summits for C-level Executives from across-the-board range of industries and throughout the globe.

Today, Spencer Green avows GDS International is ascertained to become the world’s no. 1 business-to-business events company. It’s going to be a commoving journey!

Spencer is married to Emily. They have two children, Finlay and Maya, and live in Bristol, UK