Carolyn McCall OBE

Carolyn McCall is Chief Executive of Guardian Media Group plc, which comprises:

• Guardian News & Media: the Guardian and Observer newspapers and the Guardian.co.uk website.
• GMG Regional Media: the Manchester Evening News and its website, a number of other regional newspapers in the North West and South of England, and the Channel M city TV station.
• GMG Radio: a number of regional radio stations across the UK under the Real Radio, Smooth Radio, Century Radio and Rock Radio brands.
• Trader Media Group: one of Europe's largest specialist print and online media companies, and publisher of the Auto Trader magazine and website. Trader Media Group is jointly owned by GMG and Apax Partners, with GMG as the majority shareholder.
• Emap Communications: the B2B publishing, events and information business, which is jointly owned by GMG and Apax Partners.
• GMG Property Services Group: Vebra and Core Systems, providers of software to independent estate agents, and thinkproperty.com, the consumer-facing portal.

GMG is wholly owned by the Scott Trust, which was created in 1936 to secure the financial and editorial independence of the Guardian in perpetuity.

Carolyn is also a non-executive director of Tesco Plc. She was a non-executive director of New Look plc (1999-2004). She is Chair of Opportunity Now, the UK’s leading membership organisation for gender equality and diversity at work, and a former President of Women in Advertising and Communications London (WACL).

She graduated from Kent University with a BA in History and Politics, and from London University with a Masters in Politics. She is married with three children.