BBC DG Tim Davie has finally found his Transformer after a seven month search. Korn Ferry, waving a Board-level-specially-sanctioned package, have brought him John Curbishley, a Brit who's been working in New York since 2003, after completion of a Harvard MBA.
He will be Chief Strategy and Transformation Officer with a seat on the executive board, starting in April.
John, 50, has a degree in law from Oxford University, where he also served as treasurer to the Oxford Union - repaid with a donation over £10k last year. His wife, Louise, also went to Oxford and Harvard, and is CFO of MEMX. Her university interests were the Oxford Air Squadron, Tae Kwon Do, and College Rowing. They live in an apartment near Hudson Square.
John's first period with the BBC was in Corporate Strategy, from 1999 to 2001, the change from John Birt to Greg Dyke, when Carolyn Fairbairn was running the department.
John's subsequent life experiences include a spell with a company that puts tv screens and ads in doctors' waiting rooms; he helped himself out of a job last year with work transforming Paramount Global, previously known as Viacom CBS.
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