2013-2018 Young Global Leader....

Executive Chairman, Sky News Group with overall responsibility for Sky’s news services across EMEA.

Sky is a wholly-owned division of Comcast-NBCUniversal, the US media, technology and connectivity conglomerate.

The Sky News Group includes Sky News (in English), Sky TG24 (in Italian), their digital extensions, partnerships, and joint ventures, with approximately 800 editorial staff globally.

Previously, David was President, UK Broadcasting for News Corporation, his second stint with the company where he started his career in 1996 at Fox News.

He was President of CBS News from 2011-2019 where his team launched “CBS This Morning,” the network’s most-competitive performance in that daypart, expanded the Washington public-affairs program “Face the Nation,” made generational transitions of key broadcast talent on “CBS Sunday Morning” and “60 Minutes,” and drove significant cultural change at a time of significant corporate disruption.

CBS News forged a global news-gathering partnership with BBC News and launched the digital-streaming network CBSN, beating all competitors to market with live news and video on demand outside of pay TV.

At Bloomberg LP from 2008 to 2011 he served as Head of US Television. He has also consulted for Spotify, the Los Angeles Times, and BCG.

On the Board of Trustees of Rice University and a past member of the Advisory Board of the James A Baker III Institute for Public Policy and External Board of the Rice-Doerr Institute for New Leaders.

Member of the board of the Riverdale Country School in New York City. Past Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Edward R Murrow Center for a Digital World within Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.

David lives in London with his wife Emma, also in the news media, most recently with Needham Partners (a vendor to Time and FORTUNE), earlier with MTV Networks, CBS, the New York Post, and Cablevision (now Altice USA). They have two boys, aged 16 and 14.