07 Sep 2007
| by Jacquie Bowser
LONDON - Microsoft's Online Services Business has appointed Direct Line's Paul Davies as head...Messenger and Windows Live Hotmail . Davies joins Microsoft following two years as head of brand ...
Davies will be responsible for developing strategic marketing campaigns for each of the brands ...
. Davies said: It s an exciting time in the online world. The innovation coming in Live Search ...
19 Sep 2001
| by Claire Billings,
and current deputy BBC chairman Gavyn Davies as BBC chairman in the next hour....on the grounds that the BBC will be run by Labour supporters. BBC director general Greg Dyke is a former Labour Party donor.
The decision to appoint Davies will doubtless spark a huge row between ...
David Davies have already spoken out against Davies' appointment in the past few days ...
25 Jan 2002
| by Claire Billings,
LONDON - BBC chairman Gavyn Davies has vowed to fight any government plans to bring the public...Speaking to the Commons select committee this week, Davies told MPs that the BBC, as a public ...
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Davies pledged he would defend the role of the BBC's governors when he took over as chairman from Sir ...
secretary if needed.
Davies' comments came in response to a change of mind by former culture ...
14 Feb 2002
| by Claire Billings,
LONDON - BBC chairman Gavyn Davies is set to overhaul the role of the BBC's governors in an attempt...industry -- Ofcom".
Davies is expected to unveil the proposals later this month, either at a BBC ...
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Davies pledged, when he was appointed to the position of chairman of the BBC last year, that he ...
of publication of the communications bill in April.
It comes as the BBC faces increasing pressure from ...
29 Jan 2004
Davies was appointed chairman of the BBC Board of Governors for five years from October 1 2001. He...In 1999 he chaired a UK government inquiry into the future funding of the BBC.
Davies was born on November 27 1950 and graduated in economics from St John's College, Cambridge in 1972, followed by two ...
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Prior to his appointment as BBC chairman he was chief international economist and managing director ...
15 Feb 2008
| by Staff
', to succeed Evan Davis as BBC economics editor....Her appointment follows the move of Davis to the Today Programme on BBC Radio 4. Flanders is a ...
-- and not an act that any sensible person would want to follow. But then nor is BBC economics editor a job that you ...
of the economics and business centre in BBC News, said: Stephanie has a formidable track record as an economist ...
17 Sep 2001
| by Gordon MacMillan,
LONDON - Gavyn Davies, the Goldman Sachs economist, is understood to have won the race...and it was agreed he would hold both posts until a new BBC chairman could be found.
Davies, who is also deputy ...
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The closest contender to Davies for the job was current BBC vice-chairman and senior BBC presenter David ...
chairman John Ashworth.
BBC director general Greg Dyke is said to get on well with Davies. However, Dyke ...
13 Mar 2002
| by Claire Billings,
LONDON - BBC chairman Gavyn Davies has hit back at the government's decision to further delay...at Westminster that she needed further assurances from the BBC about how much it would impinge on commercial revenues.
Speaking at the same conference, Davies said: "Without BBC3, our digital proposition looks much ...
that the BBC and the Independent Television Commission had to work together to settle a discrepancy over how ...
20 Sep 2001
| by Claire Billings,
It has been a rough journey, but Gavyn Davies, the multi-millionaire Goldman Sachs economist, has...that the top level of the BBC is being filled with the Prime Minister's friends and supporters, otherwise known ...
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The shadow culture secretary Tim Yeo has said that, while he has no problem with Gavyn Davies, the fact that the BBC director general and the chairman are both Labour supporters represents "a break with all previous ...
28 Jul 2003
| by Claire Billings,
LONDON - Gavyn Davies, chairman of the BBC, has accused the government of attempting to ruin...In a letter to The Sunday Telegraph, Davies claims some people "in and around the government" have tried to influence the BBC's governors by placing them "under public attack".
The letter reads: "The ...
-so-unveiled threats that the broadcaster's funding, and even director-general Greg Dyke, could be removed.
Davies ...