The chief executive of specialist publisher Future has received a 21% pay rise following her stewardship of the business through the Covid-19 crisis. Zillah Byng-Thorne’s salary was increased to £575,000 effective from 1 October, fixed for at least the next two years. In its annual report, the company said this was her first pay review since 2018 and follows an “assessment of Zillah’s individual performance in role, her leadership in delivering exceptional results for our shareholders, and more generally the increase in size, complexity and geographical spread of the group in recent ye...