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Pat Younge

Managing Director/Founder of Sugar Films

Media executive Pat Younge is a television veteran. In a Media, Publishing& Entertainment
career which has spanned more than 25 years, he has held
senior positions which made him one of the most influential
black voices in the industry.
In 2015 he co-founded start-up Sugar Films alongside
Kwadjo Dajan, Nav Raman, Narinder Minhas and Lucy
Pilkington.
Sugar Films is a 360° media company, based in London
and Cardiff, focused on integrating television content,
digital production and creative solutions to create original
content that reflects the changing demands of modern
audiences. The company aims to create the next generation
of returnable formats, impactful dramas and innovative
factual entertainment and documentary series that will
resonate with global audiences. In March 2016 it was
announced that Sky had won a successful bid to take a
minority stake in the company.
Recent productions include the critically acclaimed
BBC2 documentary Bill Cosby: Downfall of an American
Icon, while forthcoming films include one on first cousin
marriage for BBC3 and another on the crisis in white
America for Channel 4.
For four years from January 2010, Pat was Chief Creative
Officer of the BBC, one of the most senior positions at the
Corporation. In this role he was responsible for creating NEW Jacqueline Simmons
2,500 hours of TV programming annually across Comedy, 2018 Executive editor, Bloomberg LP
Drama, Entertainment and Factual as well as multi-
platform and some radio production. He oversaw 3,000 BBC In her role as executive editor of the Global Business group
programme makers across the UK, spending £350million on at Bloomberg News, Jackie manages a team of 150 reporters
productions which include Strictly Come Dancing, Dr Who, and editors worldwide, covering news exclusives on
Top Gear, Frozen Planet, EastEnders and Luther. companies and management, as well as the intersection of
Pat also sits on the advisory board of indy production business with economic and policy trends.
company 21 Million, a revolutionary project which aims to As the sole black female in senior news management at
create the world’s first Blockchain independent TV series. Bloomberg, Jackie is equally active promoting diversity
initiatives across the newsroom and at industry events
including the World Economic Forum in Davos and the
Women’s Forum Global Meeting in Deauville, France.
She sits on Bloomberg’s EMEA Diversity Council and
acts as an informal mentor, hosting one-to-one career
discussions with reporters and editors across the newsroom.
In 2015, she helped lead Bloomberg Europe team’s
coverage of the takeover battle for France’s Alstom by
General Electric. Bloomberg broke the exclusive on a story
that dominated headlines in the European business media
for more than a year. Her team has also produced memorable
investigative stories on companies from Wal-Mart to Takata,
major trading scandals and key personalities such as the
Rothschild family.
In her early days at Bloomberg, Jackie covered European
consumer goods – including luxury companies LVMH
and Hermes – to investment banking and mergers and
acquisitions. In 2009 she was appointed managing editor for
companies and, in 2015, landed her current role of executive
editor, where she works from London across three time
zones – Asia, Europe and the Americas.
Jackie was a finalist for the prestigious Gerald Loeb award
in 2009 for her coverage with the Bloomberg finance team
of the European banking crisis, and featured in the 2002
book Best Business Stories of the Year for documenting the
challenges facing asset management giant Lazard.

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