BBC Studios Sets Lorraine Burgess as Chief Financial Officer

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Naman Ramachandran Lorraine Burgess has been confirmed as chief financial officer at BBC Studios after serving as interim CFO since July 2021.

Burgess will report into chief executive Tom Fussell.Producer-distributor BBC Studios is U.K. broadcaster BBC’s largest commercial subsidiary, which contributed sales of £1.25 billion ($1.7 billion) in the 2020/2021 financial year.

Burgess’ role is key given than U.K. Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries has frozen the U.K. TV license fee, the BBC’s primary source of income, for two years.

Burgess will sit on BBC Studios’ Executive Committee and lead the overall financial strategy and teams for the outfit. Working with Fussell and the executive committee, as well as group and external stakeholders, she will help shape strategy to achieve BBC Studios’ commercial ambitions.