Former NYT CEO and BBC Director General, Mark Thompson is the new chairman of Ancestry, the "global leader in family history and consumer genomics".
Mark, 63 (Stonyhurst College and Merton College, Oxford) seems to have been appointed by representatives of private equity company Blackstone, who bought the company in August for an estimated $4.7billion.
He succeeds Margo Georgiadis, who came to the company in 2018 from Mattel, where she'd failed to improve the companies performance, despite concentrating on Barbie and Hot Wheels.
Mr Thompson, post-covid, will have to turn up at the company's HQ in Lehi, Utah, which is named after a prophet in the Book of Mormon. "At our state-of-the-art headquarters in Lehi, you're never more than 20 minutes away from world-class skiing, hiking, and fishing. Enjoy an on-site gym and sprawling mountain views." Previously famous for flour milling, it's population is just over 60,000.
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