Jeremy darroch bskyb biography

Sir David Jeremy Darroch (born 18 July 1962) is an English businessman who was the CEO of Sky from December 2007 until becoming executive chairman in.
Sir Jeremy is the former Executive Chairman and Group Chief Executive of Sky. He joined Sky PLC as Chief Financial Officer in 2004.
Jeremy became Executive Chairman of Sky in 2021.

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Jeremy became Executive Chairman of Sky in 2021. He joined Sky plc as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) in 2004 and was appointed CEO in December 2007. Jeremy became Group CEO following the acquisition of Sky Italia and Sky Deutschland in 2014. He has extensive experience in the retailing and fast-moving consumer goods sectors.

Prior to joining Sky, Jeremy was Group Finance Director of DSG International plc (DSG), formerly Dixons Group plc and prior to DSG, he spent 12 years at Procter & Gamble in a variety of roles in the UK and Europe.

Jeremy is an Ambassador of WWF. He was previously Chair of Business in the Community, a Non-Executive Director of Burberry Group plc, a Non-Executive Director and the Chairman of the Audit Committee of Marks and Spencer Group plc, a Council Member of the National Centre for Universities and Business and trustee of the Youth Sport Trust.

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Sky's chief executive Jeremy Darroch to step down

Jeremy Darroch is to step down as chief executive of Sky, the parent company of Sky News, after 13 years.

Mr Darroch, 58, is one of the UK's longest-serving chief executives.

His successor will be Dana Strong, currently president of consumer services at Comcast Cable, the largest broadband and pay TV provider in the United States.

Comcast bought Sky for nearly £30bn in October 2018 after outbidding 21st Century Fox, the US media giant headed by Rupert Murdoch, which had been seeking to take full control.

Ms Strong has been an executive in the telecoms and media industry for more than 25 years and, earlier in her career, was chief operating officer of Virgin Media - one of Sky's competitors.

To ensure a smooth transition, Mr Darroch will become executive chairman of Sky, remaining in the post throughout 2021. He will then act as an advisor to the company.

Northumberland-born Mr Darroch is only the fifth chief executive that Sky has had since it floated on the stock market 26 years ago and by far its longest ser

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The MT Interview: Jeremy Darroch of BSkyB

MT first came across Jeremy Darroch in the spring of 2007. We'd been summoned out west to Osterley for a rare audience with his boss, James Murdoch, BSkyB's CEO, the young heir apparent to the News Corp global empire. While Murdoch had a preparatory cigarette on the balcony, I was hurried along a corridor at New Horizon Court. Darroch, then Sky's finance director, was in his big office staring intently at his screen. He looked up with a careworn and slightly melancholic mien. A lot has happened to both Darroch and Murdoch since then: mostly good for the former, not so great for the latter.

Darroch has a reputation for being close to Murdoch, a bright, thorough and trusted lieutenant who tempered some of his energetic boss's schemes and excesses. Legend had it that together they'd dreamt up the brazen December 2006 raid on ITV shares on the back of a fag packet: the dynamic duo rustled up £940m for 18% of the company in three days flat and finally stymied Richard Branson's chance of ever being a bigtime player in British television.