BBC Studios, the manufacturing and gross sales arm of the BBC, has a brand new — official — boss.
In a transfer that was extensively anticipated, Tom Fussell, who has been interim CEO since September 2020 when then-head Tim Davie was appointed to the highest BBC position of director normal, has now been formally appointed BBC Studios boss.
As CEO, Fussell will probably be answerable for main the event and supply of BBC Studios’ world growth plans, in addition to, in line with the BBC “persevering with to deepen worker engagement and wellbeing; placing variety and inclusion on the coronary heart of BBC Studios; and embedding sustainability all through the corporate.”
Fussell joined what was then often called BBC Worldwide as CFO in 2016, taking over the identical position within the newly merged BBC Studios in 2018, and later including property and know-how to his temporary. He serves on the BBC Business Holdings board and can be chair of BBC StudioWorks. Between 1997 and 2007 he held a variety of monetary roles for the then BBC Manufacturing and BBC Group Finance. Outdoors of the BBC, Fussell served as CFO of Shine Group from 2013 to 2015, remaining to finish the merger with Endemol, held a wide range of industrial director roles at Harper Collins U.Okay. and was additionally finance director for Random Home within the U.Okay.
“I’m honored to be heading up BBC Studios for the longer term,” stated Fussell. “BBC Studios is a core a part of the BBC group, and more and more helps throughout all its strategic priorities from distinctive excessive precedence content material and impartiality to on-line and, in fact, industrial revenue. With ambition to serve each British and worldwide audiences in new methods, my position is to work with everybody in BBC Studios to strengthen and remodel all we do for the longer term.”
