Dawn Airey (47) began her broadcasting career as a management trainee for Central TV in 1985. In 1989 she became Director of Programme Planning at Central and was appointed to the Central broadcasting board. In 1993 she moved to the ITV Network Centre as Controller of Children’s and Daytime Programmes and in 1994 moved to Channel 4 to become Controller of Arts and Entertainment. In 1996 she was appointed Director of Programmes for Channel Five and was promoted to Chief Executive in 2000. In 2003 she was appointed Managing Director Sky Networks and was responsible for all of Sky’s wholly owned channels (excluding sport). In 2006 she was made Managing Director Channels and Services with responsibility for all third party channels, joint ventures and networked media. In 2007 she joined ITV as Director of Global Content and in 2008 she became member of the Board of ITV. In October 2008, Dawn Airey returned to Five as CEO. She left the company in late 2010 and became President CLT-UFA, UK TV.