Martin Stewart

Martin Stewart is Chief Executive Officer of NEP Group. He has more than 35 years of media sector experience working in public and private companies across the globe.

Prior to joining NEP, Martin served as CEO at SKY New Zealand PLC, where he and his team turned the business around in just two years. Before SKY, he was CEO of Orbit Showtime Network (OSN), the leading pay TV network in Dubai, where he led a transformational change program that pivoted the business into the provision of streaming services.

Earlier in his career, he was the CFO and an Executive Director of Sky PLC in the UK, and held major roles as CFO of the Football Association in the UK, CEO of Cableuropa (ONO) in Spain, and Group CFO and Executive Director of EMI Group PLC.

Martin has held several other high-profile leadership roles throughout his career, including as senior non-executive director of The Department of Energy & Climate Change for the UK Government, from 2013 to 2016, and as a board member and Chair of the Audit Committee for the London 2012 Olympics.

Martin holds a BA in Modern History from the University of London and is an active Board member of Sported, a UK organization supporting community sport clubs and youth groups to use the power of sport to tackle the root causes of some of society’s most significant issues.