78 ITV plc Annual Report and Accounts 2023 ITV plc Annual Report and Accounts 2023 79 BOARD OF DIRECTORS CONTINUED G MANAGEMENT BOARD O VE R NAN MARGARET EWING GRAHAM COOKE DAWN ALLEN JULIAN BELLAMY CAROLYN MCCALL RUFUS RADCLIFFE C Managing Director, Chief Executive Managing Director, E A N A N A ITV Studios Streaming and Independent Independent Independent Interactive Non-executive Non-executive Non-executive Director, Chair of the Director, Workforce Director Audit and Risk Engagement Director Committee (from June 2023) Appointed to the Board on 31 October 2017 Appointed to the Board on 1 May 2020 Appointed to the Board on 2 October 2023 Appointed: February 2016 Appointed: January 2018 Appointed: April 2017 Key areas of expertise: Business transformation, Key areas of expertise: Business transformation, Key areas of expertise: Business transformation, Experience: Julian joined ITV in 2014 as Experience: Biography on page 77. Experience: Rufus joined ITV as Group Marketing Finance and Treasury, Audit, Sustainability and Digital, Media and Media IP, Strategy, Technology Digital, Finance and Treasury, Audit, Strategy, Managing Director of ITV Studios in the UK. and Research Director in 2011. He was promoted to ESG, Strategy, Regulation and Public Policy and Data Technology and Data He was promoted to Managing Director of ITV Chief Marketing Officer and appointed to the Key skills and experience: Margaret has extensive Key skills and experience: Graham has extensive Studios and appointed to the Management Board Management Board in 2017. experience in financial accounting, corporate technical and digital experience, a focus in Key skills and experience: Dawn has extensive in February 2016. In 2019 he took on additional responsibility for the financial, commercial and international experience KEVIN LYGO finance, strategic and corporate planning having user-centric product design, coupled with in-depth having held global roles in large scale businesses He has responsibility for running ITV’s global Managing Director, Direct to Consumer division as Chief Marketing served as a Managing Partner of Deloitte LLP and knowledge of the e-commerce and digital sectors. across consumer-related sector. She joined Tate & production and distribution business that Media & Officer and Director of Direct to Consumer. In Chief Financial Officer of BAA plc and Trinity Mirror He is the founder of Qubit, the leading provider of Lyle PLC in 2022 as Chief Financial Officer where creates, produces and sells finished programmes Entertainment October 2020 he was appointed Managing Director plc. Margaret also held Non-executive Director and e-commerce personalisation technology. Prior to she has been heavily involved in developing the and formats in the UK and internationally. of On Demand, one of the two business units Audit Committee positions with Standard founding Qubit, he spent five years working at global strategy, digital capabilities and processes. Julian’s previous roles included Creative Director making up the newly created Media & Chartered plc and Whitbread plc and was an Google. His most recent role there was as global Prior to this she was Global CFO & VP, Global and Head of Commissioning at Discovery Entertainment Division. external member of the Audit and Risk Committee leader on Google’s strategy for conversion rate Transformation at Mars where, during a 25-year Networks International, Head of Programming at Rufus now leads our streaming, interactive and of the John Lewis Partnership. Margaret was a improvement. Graham has been working with web career, she held a number of key senior financial Channel 4 and prior to that he ran BBC3 and E4. data teams. managing partner of public policy regulation for technology since 1995, designing and building roles in Europe and the US including Global He also spent time as Channel 4’s Head of Factual Deloitte UK. Margaret’s skills and experience give websites with emergent technology. Divisional CFO, Food, Drinks and Multi Sales and Entertainment and was a commissioning editor of Appointed: August 2010 Before joining ITV, Rufus spent 10 years at Channel her substantial insight into the Company’s Current external appointments: Director, Regional CFO Wrigley Americas. Channel 4 News and Current Affairs. 4, and prior to that held various positions at reporting and risk management processes. Experience: Kevin joined ITV as Managing Director McCann Erickson and JWT. Qubit Digital; Non-executive Director, RWS Current external appointments: Chief Financial of ITV Studios and a member of the Management Current external appointments: Non-executive Holdings PLC. Officer, Tate & Lyle PLC Board in 2010. He became Director of Television in Director and Chair of the Audit and Compliance February 2016 and in October 2020 he was Committee and member of the Nominations appointed Managing Director of the newly created Committee of International Consolidated Airlines Media & Entertainment Division. Group, S.A.; Senior Independent Director, Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee and member of the GIDON KATZ MARJORIE KAPLAN DAVID OSBORN As well as having overall responsibility for the CHRIS KENNEDY Nominations Committee of ConvaTec Group plc. Chief People Officer Media & Entertainment Division, Kevin continues to Group CFO and COO Independent Independent run the Broadcast business unit (one of the two Non-executive Non-executive business units making up the Division) and to Director Director oversee the commissioning of popular programming delivering ITV’s USP of mass SHARMILA NEBHRAJANI simultaneous reach. R N Kevin’s previous roles included Director of Television and Content at Channel 4, Director of Independent Programmes at Channel 5 and a number of Non-executive Appointed to the Board on 17 July 2022 Appointed to the Board 1 September 2023 Appointed: October 2014 positions at the BBC, including Head of Appointed: February 2019 Director, Chair of Key areas of expertise: Creative Industry, Digital, Key areas of expertise: Business Transformation, Experience: David joined ITV as the HR Director Independent Commissioning for Entertainment. Experience: Biography on page 77. the Remuneration Media and Media IP, Strategy, Technology and Data Creative Industry, Media and Media IP, Strategy for ITV Studios in 2011, leading the HR agenda for Committee the ITV Studios Division through the early stages Key skills and experience: Gidon has extensive Key skills and experience: Marjorie has extensive of transformation. digital and streaming services experience, along brand, content and audience strategy experience Appointed to the Board on 10 December 2020 with in-depth knowledge of tech product and having spent 20 years as a senior executive in the In 2014 he was promoted to Group HR Director and KELLY WILLIAMS Key areas of expertise: Business transformation, platform businesses having been responsible for global media industry at Discovery, now Warner appointed to the Management Board. To reflect an Managing Director, Digital, Finance and Treasury, Audit, Sustainability the transformation of Now TV in the UK and the Bros Discovery, where she oversaw dramatic increased portfolio, in 2022 David became Chief Commercial and ESG, Media and Media IP, Regulation and Public development and highly successful launch of growth at multiple major networks in the US, People Officer and is responsible for the People Policy, Strategy, Remuneration, People and Talent Peacock. He joined Roku in 2022 as Senior Vice building new franchises and unlocking revenue Strategy for ITV globally, ensuring People decisions President of Consumer at Roku, prior to joining opportunities across platforms and then was are central to everything we do at ITV. He has Key skills and experience: Sharmila has strong Roku he was President of Direct to Consumer for responsible for strategy, coordination and responsibility for Health, Safety and Security and public sector, commercial, government and NBCU, launching Peacock in the U.S. Before moving execution of the International Division’s global Duty of Care for all who work at ITV, behind the non-profit experience across a wide range of to the U.S, Gidon led Sky’s streaming service ‘Now’ content activities across the portfolio worldwide. scenes and in front of the camera. In addition, he sectors, including utilities, financial services, for six years, having previously launched Virgin She has substantial experience in both the US and leads the Human Resources, Workplace Services media, global health and medical research. Earlier Media’s VOD service. He holds a BA/MA from the Europe with a track record as a change agent, and Pensions teams. Appointed: December 2014 in her career, she held the post of Chief Operating University of Cambridge and an MSc in transforming and growing global brands and Officer at BBC Future Media & Technology, where International Relations from The London School of businesses, and building vibrant organisations. Prior to joining ITV David has worked across Experience: Kelly joined ITV in 2011 as Group she managed the business functions of bbc.co.uk, Economics and Political Science. a number of different industries and sectors Commercial Director. He was promoted to including the launch of the iPlayer. Sharmila Current external appointments: Head of Faculty including Marks and Spencer Plc, Mars Inc., Managing Director Commercial and appointed to studied medicine at the University of Oxford, is a Current external appointments: President of at Merryck & Co; Non-executive Director of Visa International, Vodafone and EMI Music. the Management Board in 2014. He is the Chair of Chartered Accountant and was awarded an OBE in Consumer Experience, Roku ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE in Germany, ARTDAI Thinkbox, the marketing body for commercial TV in 2014 for services to medical research. and Trustee at The Grierson Trust. the UK, a member of the BARB Strategy Board and sits on the RTL AdAliance International Board. Current external appointments: Non-executive Director, Chair of the Remuneration Committee, He has responsibility for all commercial advertising Member of the Corporate Sustainability and deals across the ITV family of channels. Nominations Committees, Severn Trent plc; Prior to joining ITV, Kelly was the Sales Director Non-executive Director, member of the Audit and at Channel 5 and prior to that held various positions Risk, Remuneration and Nominations Committees, at UKTV, Sky and Thames Television. Halma plc; Non-executive Director and Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee, Coutts & Co; Chairman of National Institute for Health and Care Excellence; Non-executive Director, University of Oxford; and World Fellow, Yale University.