Sarah Wright Elevated at Sky

LONDON: Sarah Wright, currently Sky’s controller of acquisitions, has been promoted to become director of acquisitions.

Wright reports to Gary Davey, Sky’s managing director of content. She joined Sky in 2009 from UKTV, where she was director of content acquisitions, having previously worked at the BBC.

In her new post, Wright and her team based in the U.K. and Los Angeles will lead all of Sky’s commercial activity with its TV and movies content partners around the world. The team will work closely with the heads of Sky’s entertainment channels in the U.K. to acquire content to support their creative vision for the channels.

Davey said: “Sarah and the team have done a brilliant job this year in expanding our market-leading entertainment offer. This has included extending our relationships with Disney and HBO and our new deal with Showtime. As well as commissioning more of our own shows, we are committed to making sure we offer customers the very best acquired content from around the world. Now we are a pan-European business, we are working with our content partners across multiple territories. With our expanded portfolio of products and services like Sky Q, NOW TV and Sky Store, we are delivering shows and movies to customers in more ways than ever before. This new structure means we are well placed to continue meeting the high expectations of our customers.”