Jeremy Darroch
Executive Chairman, Sky
The future of television – and leading the entertainment giant’s expansion into new markets
Jeremy Darroch is group chief executive of Sky. He joined as chief financial officer in 2004 and took on his current role in 2007. Sky delivers television, broadband, mobile and pay-TV. With 23 million customers, it is Europe’s biggest entertainment business. In this in-depth interview, Jeremy discusses their plans for the future under new owners Comcast, talks about the responsibility of big business to act responsibly by “showing up” and paying their taxes – and recalls how the launch of the company almost took Rupert Murdoch “personally to the wall”.