Cécile Frot-Coutaz

Cécile Frot-Coutaz is the Chief Executive Officer of Sky Studios, Sky's Europe-wide development, production and commissioning arm for Sky Original comedy and drama. In addition to this Cécile has responsibility for Sky Studios' factual output as well as its global portfolio of production companies which includes Blast! Films, Jupiter Entertainment, True North and Love Productions, creator of the Great British Bake Off. She also oversees Sky Studios Elstree, the new, state-of-the-art film and TV studios that will house 13 sound stages and is set to be the world's most sustainable film and TV studio when it opens in early 2022. She started her career in strategy consulting at Mercer Management Consulting, in London, where she stayed for four years. In 1994, after obtaining her MBA, she joined the Pearson group headquarters in London. She was subsequently named Corporate Strategy Executive for Pearson TV, where she spearheaded the acquisition and integration of All American Fremantle into