Mike Darcey

With an extensive track record of strategy and delivery across television, publishing and technology, Mike was appointed to the board in September 2017. A New Zealander, he has lived and worked in the UK since 1989. Fifteen of those years were spent at Sky UK, initially as the Director of Strategy, then six years as Chief Operating Officer. He played a prominent role in most of Sky UK's major strategic decisions and its major commercial and regulatory dealings during this period. From 2013 to 2015 Mike was CEO of News UK. Since 2015, Mike has had a series of non-executive roles and these currently include Chairman of M247 (a global connectivity and cloud services provider), Chairman of British Gymnastics, and director of Arqiva (the UK’s main independent provider of television broadcast and mobile infrastructure). He also provides strategic consulting services in the media sector.