 Educated at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he edited the student magazine "Isis", Hely Hutchinson was employed by Macmillan Publishers in Britain and Australia before working for Robert Maxwell as Managing Director of Macdonald Futura in 1982.In 1986 he co-founded Headline Publishing Group, which floated on the London Stock Exchange in 1991 and was voted publisher of the year in 1992.In 1993 Headline bought the long-established firm of Hodder & Stoughton, creating Hodder Headline PLC, the fourth largest British publisher at that time.