Time Out Group’s Management Team

Chris Ohlund joined Time Out Group in July 2021 as Executive Vice Chairman, and was appointed CEO in October 2021. Chris has over 25 years of leadership experience in international digital businesses ranging from leading media brands, consumer platforms and film production. He has served on various boards including as Chairman of then-publicly listed Ricardo (part of Tradus) – which was eventually sold to Naspers for $1.9 billion. Mr Ohlund served as Non-Executive Director at Oscar-winning Condor Films in Switzerland, London-based internet start-up Shutl.com (until its sale to eBay), Facile and Casa in Italy and currently serves on the board of the UK’s leading PropTech, Residently.

As CEO of Germany’s leading online comparison portal Verivox, his innovative transformation leadership quadrupled annual revenue and increased enterprise value sixfold to over €500 million during his tenure of six years. Previously he turned around the digital business unit of “Blick”, a daily Swiss newspaper, to become the number one digital news portal in Switzerland, including developing number one apps in news, sports and entertainment. Prior he served as CEO of logistics firm DPD with annual revenues in excess of €1 billion and a workforce of 11,000 strong.

Patrick Foley joined Time Out Group as Chief Financial Officer in 2022. He brings over 20 years’ financial and commercial experience and broad sector background in Media, Technology and Software Development. He joins from Sahara Presentation Systems Ltd / Boxlight Corporation where he was Chief Financial Officer (Boxlight is a Nasdaq listed company); previously, he has held various senior roles including that of CFO, COO and Interim CEO at Arts Alliance Media Ltd; prior to that he was VP Finance for Universal Pictures International. Patrick qualified as a Chartered Management Accountant and holds an MSc degree in Strategic Business Management from Manchester Metropolitan University.

Stacy Bettman joined Time Out Group in March 2018 as Time Out Media's Managing Director Sales North America before taking on the role of President Americas, followed by President North America & UK and in 2023 as Time Out Media CEO. In this role, Stacy leads the Time Out Media division around the world including across North America, the UK, Europe, APAC as well as the global Franchises.

With over 25 years of media experience across multiple disciplines in digital sales and marketing, Stacy has held Publisher positions at Hearst and Associated Publisher titles at Condé Nast on beauty, fashion and health brands. She has led award-winning teams at Allure, Marie Claire and Seventeen. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Journalism from New York University.

Sandy Hayek joined Time Out Market Dubai as General Manager in early 2021. In February 2022, Sandy was promoted to Co-CEO of Time Out Market (Operations) and as Time Out Market CEO is now overseeing the Markets business.

Sandy’s career spans over 18 years in hospitality across Scandinavia and the UAE, including nine years in Dubai. Sandy holds an associate degree in agriculture and a bachelor’s degree in international hospitality management and is also a certified wine sommelier. 

Prior to joining Time Out Market, Sandy served as the F&B Operations Manager for Nakheel Group, launching Depachika Food Hall on Palm Jumeirah and the Food District at The Pointe. Previously, she held senior management positions within award-winning dining and retail concepts including La Serre Bistro & Boulangerie in Downtown Dubai and Galeries Lafayette, amongst others.

Mike Seery joined Time Out Group in 2022 as Chief Technology Officer (CTO), overseeing Product & Engineering, IT and Customer Experience. Mike brings a wealth of experience, having held technology leadership roles across media organisations including the Economist Group, Telegraph Media Group and Which?. Most recently he was CTO at Euromoney, a global B2B information-services business. Throughout his career Mike has led transformational digital programmes, including building Economist.com, The Economist’s first significant digital presence; creating a product-focused culture to roll out new products and services that transformed Which?’s digital capabilities; and modernising the digital delivery of products at Euromoney to support the turnaround of its investment research businesses.

Andy Jones joined Time Out Group in early 2022 in the newly created role of Chief People Officer. Leading the people agenda across the whole of Time Out Group, Andy is responsible for all elements of HR globally, developing initiatives to engage, recruit and retain the best people.

With over 20 years of diverse HR and commercial experience, spanning multiple geographies and cultures, Andy drives leaders to develop the mind-set, energy and capability to deliver organisation change.

After starting his career in sales and marketing, Andy spent over 14 years at Diageo in a number of talent, organisation effectiveness, business transformation and global and local HR director roles across the UK, Europe, Asia and the Americas. Following this, Andy joined TCC Global - a medium-sized retail loyalty marketing organisation - in numerous roles, ending up as the Global HR Director and a member of the executive committee.