Richard Eyre

Non Executive Director

His career began buying TV spots for advertisers in 1975.  He spent 16 years in advertising, ending up as the first Media Director of BBH. During 1991, Richard became Chief Executive of Capital Radio plc. leading the move to acquire radio companies outside London and building the industry’s revenue share.  He was recruited to be Chief Executive of ITV in 1997, tackling a declining network.  He published aggressive audience targets and built a new network team to achieve them. In February 2000 he became Chairman and CEO of Pearson Television, producing TV programmes in 35 countries.  Within 6 months the business was merged with Bertelsmann’s TV and Radio assets to found RTL, the largest broadcasting company in Europe.  He became a director of the newly merged company where he was responsible for Content and Strategy.
 
Richard is now a full-time nonexecutive director with board and advisory roles, he was Chairman of RDF Media plc, the independent TV producer for 8 years, through flotation and subsequent sale in February 09.  Now RDF’s Compliance Ombudsman.  He has spent three years on the board of the Guardian Media Group and five years on the board of Digital Bridges, a mobile games publisher, becoming Chairman when it rebranded as I-Play.  In 2007, he joined the board of GCap Media plc, the UK’s largest radio group, becoming Chairman in November, managing its sale in June 2008.