With over thirty years’ leadership experience gained as a senior executive and consultant in the sports, media and digital industries at some of the world’s best pay TV companies, online businesses and sports rights holders, Stephen is strategic, commercial and operational, has a strong network, a track record of success in international and complex environments, and knows how the media, online and telecommunications sectors must continue to change.
Stephen’s executive experience includes working for Google/YouTube and Sky and, as a consultant for the America’s Cup, Goodwood, UK Athletics, Race Course Media Group and the Commonwealth Games Federation. In addition, he is a Senior Advisor to Searchlight Capital Partners, a transatlantic private equity fund, and is the Chair of IBC (International Broadcasting Convention), the world’s most inspiring content and technology event. Stephen's prior non-executive experience includes Ofcom (Content Board), Team Sky (Sky’s cycling team), Freeview, the National Geographic Channel, A&E (UK) as well as AEK Athens, Slavia Prague and Vicenza Calcio football clubs. He is a member of BAFTA, the Royal Television Society, the Queen’s Club and Marylebone Cricket Club. An enthusiastically untalented squash player, golfer and cyclist, he is married with two children and lives in London.
Stephen has an MBA from SDA Bocconi in Milan and a first class degree in Physics and Applied Physics from the University of Nottingham. As both a way of thinking and a critical enabler of much of his career, science has played a key role throughout Stephen's life. Recognising this, and believing that science should be for everyone, he was a Vice President and Council member of the British Science Association from 2017-2024 and was elected as a Trustee of the Ri in 2025.