Appointed: 8 Jan 2018
Key skills and experience: Dame Carolyn McCall OBE has led ITV plc's significant transformation in the competitive digital media landscape since joining in 2018, successfully evolving it from a linear organisation to a strong linear and digital media, entertainment, and global production business.
Previously, as CEO of easyJet (2010-2017), she led a turnaround focused on customer service and affordability, resulting in a quadrupling of the share price. From 2006 to 2010, McCall was CEO of the Guardian Media Group, where she established the investment trust that secured the Guardian's financial and editorial independence. She was CEO of Guardian Newspapers Ltd from 2002, and launched Guardian Unlimited, one of the first digital new services.
In 2024, McCall joined the Board of the Royal Ballet & Opera and serves on its Finance and Commercial Committee. She is also a NED on the Board of Bridgepoint plc and President of The Marketing Society. Her prior NED roles include Burberry, Tesco, Lloyds TSB, and New Look Group plc. She also served as a Trustee of the Royal Academy for 8 years and chaired their Corporate Advisory Board.
Carolyn was awarded a DBE in 2016 for services to the aviation industry and an OBE in 2008 for services to women in business. She was named Veuve Clicquot Businesswoman of the Year in 2008 and has received business leadership awards from the Evening Standard, City AM, and Management Today.
Current external appointments: Non-Executive Director, Bridgepoint Group plc; Trustee of Royal Opera and Ballet.
Appointed: 21 Feb 2019
Key skills and experience: Chris has a strong media background, holding senior management positions over a 17-year career at EMI. Chris’ experience in executing and driving strategy has played a key role in ITV’s digital acceleration into Phase Two of the More than TV strategy, and ensuring ITV’s transformation into a successful digitally led media and entertainment company, as well as driving a rationalisation/cost savings initiative. He was previously Chief Financial Officer of Micro Focus International plc, ARM Holdings and easyJet plc where he spent five years and was voted FTSE 100 CFO in 2015. As the business continues to evolve and develop, he took on the broader role of Chief Operating Officer and Chief Finance Officer in December 2021.
Current external appointments: Non-executive Director, Chair of the Audit Committee and member of the Nomination Committee, Whitbread plc (to June 2025); Associate Non-executive Director of the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust; Non-executive Director, member of the Audit Committee and member of the Nominations and Governance Committee of Tesco plc (from February 2025); Trustee of the EMI Group Archive Trust.
Appointed: September 2024
Ade Rawcliffe is the Chief People & DEI officer at ITV, where she leads the Group Human Resources and Global Risk Operations teams, including Duty of Care, as well as the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion team. Ade has over 20 years of experience in the television industry. She started her career in production, working on shows such as Big Brother, The Big Breakfast, and This Morning. She then moved into diversity and inclusion, leading the Creative Diversity team at Channel 4 and spearheading the delivery of their 360 Degree Diversity Charter. In 2017, Ade joined ITV as the Head of Diversity Commissioning. She was subsequently promoted to Director of Creative Diversity and then Chief People Officer. Under Ade's leadership, ITV has made significant progress in its diversity and inclusion efforts. The company has launched an £80 million Diversity Commissioning Fund, created almost 200 opportunities through Step Up 60, and launched new inclusive internal talent development initiatives like the leadership programme Amplify and Amplify 2.0. Ade is a member of the Board of ITN, Chineke! and chairs BAFTA's Learning, Inclusion, and Talent committee. She is also a founding board member of Times Up UK.
Appointed: February 2016
Julian joined ITV in 2014 as Managing Director of ITV Studios in the UK. He was promoted to Managing Director of ITV Studios and appointed to the Management Board in February 2016. He has responsibility for running ITV’s global production and distribution business that creates, produces and sells finished programmes and formats in the UK and internationally. Julian’s previous roles included Creative Director and Head of Commissioning at Discovery Networks International, Head of Programming at Channel 4 and prior to that he ran BBC3 and E4. He also spent time as Channel 4’s Head of Factual Entertainment and was a commissioning editor of Channel 4 News and Current Affairs.
Appointed: December 2014
Kelly joined ITV in 2011 as Group Commercial Director. He was promoted to Managing Director Commercial and appointed to the Management Board in 2014. He is the Chair of Thinkbox, the marketing body for commercial TV in the UK, a member of the BARB Strategy Board and sits on the RTL AdAliance International Board. He has He has responsibility for all commercial advertising deals across the ITV family of channels. Prior to joining ITV, Kelly was the Sales Director at Channel 5 and prior to that held various positions at UKTV, Sky and Thames Television.
Appointed: August 2010
Kevin joined ITV as Managing Director of ITV Studios and a member of the Management Board in 2010. He became Director of Television in February 2016 and in October 2020 he was appointed Managing Director of the newly created Media and Entertainment Division. As well as having overall responsibility for the Media and Entertainment Division, Kevin continues to run the Broadcast business unit (one of the two business units making up the Division) and to oversee the commissioning of popular programming delivering ITV’s USP of mass simultaneous reach. Kevin’s previous roles included Director of Television and Content at Channel 4, Director of Programmes at Channel 5 and a number of positions at the BBC, including Head of Independent Commissioning for Entertainment.
Appointed: January 2019
Kyla joined ITV as General Counsel and Company Secretary and member of the Management Board in 2019. She has responsibility for legal, company secretariat, compliance and regulatory matters across the ITV Group. Prior to joining ITV, Kyla held senior legal positions in the media, entertainment, strategic outsourcing and aviation sectors. She was General Counsel and Company Secretary at easyJet plc and Mitie Group plc; Global General Counsel of EMI Music; and Group Legal Director at ITV plc and Granada Media. Kyla is currently Chair of Independent Television News (ITN) and is also a Non-Executive Director on the Board of Northern Ballet.
Appointed: February 2021
Magnus joined ITV in 2006 and was promoted to the Management Board in February 2021. He has board responsibility for ITV's strategy, policy and regulatory teams, which includes overseeing ITV’s corporate strategy development and leading on interaction with UK and European regulators, government and parliamentary committees. From 2014 to 2019 Magnus was Chairman of the Board of the Brussels based Association of Commercial Television in Europe, which represents Europe’s commercial broadcasters to the EU institutions. Magnus is a Director and Chair of the Remuneration Committee of Everyone TV (formerly DUK) which runs the Freeview and Freesat platforms and he was a Non-executive Director of the news provider ITN for three years from 2019 to 2022. Prior to joining ITV Magnus was Head of the BBC Director General’s Office.
Appointed: June 2018
Paul joined ITV as Group Communications and Corporate Affairs Director and a member of the Management Board in 2018. He has responsibility for all Group communications including corporate and internal communications, public affairs, programme publicity and the Social Purpose strategy. Prior to joining ITV, Paul was the Communications and Public Affairs Director at easyJet plc for eight years and before this worked for FirstGroup and Virgin Atlantic Airways where he was Director of Corporate Affairs for ten years. Paul first started his career as a civil servant and worked for the Department of Transport.
Appointed: January 2024
Simon joined ITV as Chief Technology officer and member of the Management Board in January 2024. He has overall responsibility for technology strategy and implementation. Prior to joining ITV, he served as News UK’s EVP, Chief Technology Officer and prior to that held key roles at Discovery Globecast Australia and Telstra Broadcast Services.
