Andrew Griffith
Early life[edit]
Andrew was born in February 1971, grew up in South East London and attended the comprehensive St Marys & St Josephs school in Sidcup...[1]
He has a degree in Law from the University of Nottingham.[1]
Career[edit]
Andrew worked for Rothschild investment bank[2] before joining Sky plc (Known as British Sky Broadcasting before the European acquisitions in 2014) in October 1999 and he was appointed Chief Financial Officer in April 2008. [3] [4] [5] He became Group Chief Operating Officer of Sky in 2016 [1] [6] [7] [8] [9]. During this time he was also a founding director of Sky News Arabia [10][11]. He has been as outspoken in the campaign for Openreach to be separated from BT Group plc. [12] [13] [14] [15] [16].
He joined the Board of Just Eat plc in March 2014 as Senior Non Executive Director[17] [2] and became Interim Chairman in April 2017 [18] [19] [20] [21]
Political[edit]
Andrew was Conservative Parliamentary Candidate for in the Labour held seat of Corby & East Northamptonshire at the 2001 and 2005 UK General Elections, reducing Labour’s majority from 11,860 at the 1997 election to 1,517 in 2005[22] [23] [24]
Personal life[edit]
He has been married to Barbara who is a charity worker for more than twenty years. They have a son and a daughter.
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 ‘Standing Start for Sky’s Andrew Griffith’, September 2017, https://rts.org.uk/article/standing-start-sky%E2%80%99s-andrew-griffith
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 ‘Andrew Griffith's big ambition for Sky's ad sales’, 13 February 2017, https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/andrew-griffiths-big-ambition-skys-ad-sales/1423673
- ↑ 'The Guardian: Griffith steps up at Sky', https://www.theguardian.com/media/2008/apr/07/bskyb.newscorporation
- ↑ 'Bloomberg Profile of Andrew Griffith', https://www.bloomberg.com/profiles/people/3314320-andrew-griffith
- ↑ ‘Griffith steps up at Sky’, https://www.theguardian.com/media/2008/apr/07/bskyb.newscorporation
- ↑ 'Our management', https://www.skygroup.sky/corporate/about-sky/our-management
- ↑ 'Variety: Sky Finance Chief Andrew Griffith Adds Role of Chief Operating Officer', https://variety.com/2016/tv/global/sky-andrew-griffith-chief-operating-officer-1201735034/
- ↑ 'Nottingham University: Law alumnus Andrew Griffith, Group COO and CFO at Sky, to speak at Business Leaders event', https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/law/news/2017/andrew-griffith-to-speak-at-business-leaders-event.aspx
- ↑ 'City A.M.: Sky exec pay jumps on bumper £19m share payout, http://www.cityam.com/271980/sky-exec-pay-jumps-bumper-gbp19m-share-payout-
- ↑ 'The Drum: Sky News launches 24 hours Arabic rolling news channel', http://www.thedrum.com/news/2012/05/07/sky-news-launches-24-hours-arabic-rolling-news-channel
- ↑ 'Gulf News: Abu Dhabi group, BSkyB to launch Arabic channel', https://gulfnews.com/business/sectors/media/abu-dhabi-group-bskyb-to-launch-arabic-channel-1.720333
- ↑ ‘TalkTalk, Sky, and chums in final bid to convince Brits to bash BT’, https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/10/bt-openreach-ofcom-talktalk-sky-last-minute-lobbying-of-british-public/
- ↑ ‘Openreach must be separated from BT to fix Britain’s lagging internet’, https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/10/02/openreach-must-be-separated-from-bt-to-fix-britains-lagging-inte/
- ↑ 'This is Money, A bold approach is needed to benefit from broadband, says Sky's finance director ANDREW GRIFFITH, http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/comment/article-3269923/A-bold-approach-needed-benefit-broadband-says-Sky-s-finance-director-ANDREW-GRIFFITH.html
- ↑ 'City A.M., http://www.cityam.com/228474/bt-s-broadband-network-dominance-bad-customers-innovation-and-country
- ↑ 'The Financial Times: UK broadband providers wage war over control of Openreach', https://www.ft.com/content/8ffb055e-6b6e-11e5-8171-ba1968cf791a
- ↑ The Times: NED Award for FTSE all-share: Andrew Griffith juggled jobs to deliver in a crisis, https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/ned-award-for-ftse-all-share-andrew-griffith-juggled-jobs-to-deliver-in-a-crisis-c0xz89twb
- ↑ ‘Just Eat Company Officers’, https://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks/company-officers/JE.L
- ↑ 'UK Business Insider', http://uk.businessinsider.com/just-eat-hires-peter-plumb-ceo-2017-7
- ↑ 'The Daily Telegraph: Just Eat suffers second exec loss in a month as chairman takes medical leave of absence, https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2017/04/28/just-eat-suffers-second-exec-loss-month-chair-takes-medical/
- ↑ 'The Financial Times, https://www.ft.com/content/2c2c02f0-29b8-333a-af16-c8388d12aaa7
- ↑ 2005 Corby General Election results from the electoral commission, https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/find-information-by-subject/elections-and-referendums/past-elections-and-referendums/uk-general-elections/2005-uk-general-election-results/corby?undefined=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.electoralcommission.org.uk%2Ffind-information-by-subject%2Felections-and-referendums%2Fpast-elections-and-referendums%2Fuk-general-elections%2F2005-uk-general-election-results%2Fcorby
- ↑ 'The 23 faces of the future', https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1491473/The-23-faces-of-the-future.html
- ↑ 'Northampton Chronicle', https://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/news/corby-and-east-northants-2005-candidates-1-879253
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