
BEHIND THE SCENES
In 1982 William and Soheila set up Kimberley’s Publishers specialising in motoring and motor racing publications including the Kimberley’s Grand Prix Guides and on selling the company to Haynes Publishing in 1988, both joined Motor Sport magazine, William as assistant editor subsequently becoming deputy editor and Soheila as advertising manager. Since then the Kimberley’s have worked on numerous publications between them including World Sports Cars, Ferrari World, Italian Cars and Automotive Engineer which William joined as Editor in 1996 at the Institute of Mechanical Engineers (Imeche).
Here he went on to win both the Jet Media Excellence Award for technical writing in 1996 as well as the special Delphi award for technical publishing in 1999. 2005 saw this power couple team up again when William joined Soheila, now publishing director of RACE TECH magazine, as editor where he went on to win the 2014 Guild of Motoring Writers Market Engineering Award for the Technology Journalist of the year. Over the past twenty years, William and Soheila have not only gained a reputation in each of their fields as a highly respected and extremely influential journalist and publisher but they have also Kimberley Media Group Ltd, into an extremely successful media company publishing magazines, journals, books as well as hosting events.