Stephen Lustig to retire from Eurospan

Stephen Lustig, business development director of marketing, sales and distribution company Eurospan Group, will be retiring at the end of December. He will be staying on the board as a non–executive director.  

On leaving university Lustig started his working life as a professional violinist in the BBC Academy Orchestra, but moved into publishing after only a year.

He said: “As a professional musician you have to play all the right notes in the right order – I was told that in publishing you can make mistakes and not get sacked."

His career included stints of several years in Sydney and New York, where he set up and managed regional offices of IBIS Information Services in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He then held senior sales, marketing and editorial roles at Cassell, Encyclopaedia Britannica, The King’s Fund, Continuum (in New York) and Kogan Page, before joining Eurospan as sales and marketing director in 2005.

Following his retirement, Lustig will develop a small sheet music publishing business that he recently bought with his partner. He also plans to play his violin more, teach refugees English, and, having taken up the alto saxophone two years ago, join a jazz band.