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BBC ANZ appoints Director of Finance

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The role will provide high level financial analysis and strategic planning across the Australia and New Zealand business, working for Jon Penn and alongside the senior management team to ensure that growth plans are achieved.

Curry joins BBC Worldwide from AMT Group, where he is currently the Chief Financial Officer for the mobile phone retailer. In 2013 he worked as COO/CFO for The Leading Edge, an international market research and strategy services company, where he helped to improve profitability across the business.

Prior to this, Curry was the Group Financial Controller at pay television provider AUSTAR for six years, from 2006-11. In this role he contributed to the company’s strategic direction as part of the senior management team and had specific financial responsibility for joint ventures XYZ, Nickleodeon, MCN and Main Event with Foxtel and others.

Curry qualified as a Chartered Accountant with PricewaterhouseCoopers in London and worked for them for 10 years in London, Sydney and Vancouver in a number of senior roles.

At BBC Worldwide, Curry will lead a nine-strong finance team and provide commercial direction for a business that owns six subscription TV channels, including the new premium drama channel BBC First on Foxtel, distributes programmes to all TV and digital platforms in ANZ, and has a range of other commercial interests from DVDs, consumer products and digital apps to live events and advertising sales.

Tim Curry

Penn said, “Tim has extensive financial experience working in the subscription TV industry as well as retail and market research, which will be a great asset to our diverse and evolving media business.”

Curry said, “Having grown up with the BBC in the UK I took the quality of its content for granted and since coming to Australia have quickly learned what an affinity Australian audiences have for it too. I am really looking forward to joining the BBC Worldwide team and helping to grow these audiences across all platforms at such an exciting time for the industry.”

Curry joins BBC Worldwide in November.