Peter Clifton is a leader in the Publishing/Content, Media and Technology industries with over 25 years of experience developing strategy and leading companies through various stages including startup and mature business restructures as well as designing and developing online, e-commerce, social media and new business ventures. Mr. Clifton has extensive experience in Information delivery - books, magazines, databases, websites, software and online products and services.  He is also a skilled executive-level business development and sales professional experienced in building partnerships and alliances.
 
Currently consulting to companies in the publishing and technology markets, Peter was most recently Co-founder, President & CEO of FiledBy, Peter led the development of the filedby.com website and company whose mission is to provide every book/ebook author in print with a pre-assembled, SEO enabled website template that can be claimed, customized and enhanced. Over 4 million pre-assembled profile listings maximize SEO, social media marketing, product sales and community connectivity for authors on the Internet.
 
Prior to starting FiledBy, he served for five-plus years as a member of the Ingram Content Group C-level staff responsible for architecting and implementing Ingram’s turn-around and revitalization strategy. Soon after joining Ingram, he was progressively promoted to run multiple Group businesses and tasked with restructures, developing new business strategies, restructuring sales organizations and developing new marketing strategies to capture share and deliver revenue and profit growth.
 
In October 2001, Peter joined Ingram as President and CEO of Ingram Periodicals Inc., the specialty newsstand magazine distributor. In September of 2002, he was additionally named President of Ingram International Inc., the International export distributor as well as Senior Vice President, Ingram Book Group.
 
In October of 2003, he was named President, Ingram Library Services Inc. and in September of 2004, was additionally named President and CEO of Tennessee Book Company, President of Spring Arbor Distributors and President of Ingram Book Group the domestic wholesale operation. During his tenure at Ingram he was a key member of the executive team that started Ingram Publisher Services, now the leading publisher fee-based distribution business, integrated Lightning Source Print on Demand services within Ingram’s wholesale business and contributed to the early architecture of Ingram’s digital strategy.
 
Prior to joining Ingram, Peter was the founding CEO of pubeasy.com the global online ordering and order tracking service used by publishers and booksellers around the world. He was responsible for designing and deploying the Internet service worldwide, which RR Bowker LLC acquired in 2000.
 
Earlier in his career, Peter served eleven years at John Wiley & Sons, Inc. as Director of Publicity and Director of New Media Development, Director of Audio publishing and Marketing Manager of Wiley’s Professional Software publishing division.
He was Vice President, Director of New Media in the Children’s division of Harper Collins Publishers, responsible for the development of children’s multimedia and interactive games. Peter was also Vice President, Director of Business Development & Licensing for SEGA of America.
 
Mr. Clifton graduated from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree.