Mare Nostrum was set up by David Pickering and Cristina de Lara in 2002.



David had previously worked in Sales and Marketing for Prentice Hall and Sybex whilst Cristina had worked for Cambridge University Press. With experience and understanding of publishing sales in Southern Europe, gained whilst working for Charles Gibbes Associates, David and Cristina recognised that many publishers lacked the in-house sales and marketing resources to effectively manage key European territories.

They therefore decided to establish their own business offering publishers the opportunity to outsource this vital part of their operation, and with the help of Charles Gibbes, former Vice President at Prentice Hall, set up a company offering these services.

Over the past decade the business has expanded and their agency is now a well established and successful publishing business offering print and electronic sales, marketing and consultancy services to an international portfolio of publishers.