Adam Singer
Chairman
British Screen Advisory Council
Adam Singer was appointed to the Ofcom Content Board in May 2003. He has worked at the most senior levels in broadcasting and telecoms, in the UK, the U.S. and Japan. He launched the Discovery Channel in the UK and Europe and was its first MD. He was formerly COO of John Malone’s TCI International (now Liberty Media) and was part of the team that took that company public on NASDAQ in 1995. He helped create UKTV with the BBC and is a former Chairman and CEO of Flextech plc, whose portfolio included the Living, Bravo and Trouble channels. For two years he was CEO of Telewest plc, providing telephone, broadband and TV programming. Adam began his media career in a variety of programming roles, with companies such as the BBC, Viacom and United Artists. A former Group Chief Executive of the MCPS-PRS Alliance, he is Chairman of Les50ns (Holdings) Ltd; in April 2006 he was appointed Deputy Chairman of the Ofcom Content Board; in April 2008 he became Chairman of British Screen Advisory Council and in August 2008 he was appointed Chairman of the Teachers TV Board of Governors. In September 2008 he was appointed Visiting Professor in Creative Technologies at the University of Ulster, Derry.