Sophie Turner Laing

Chief Executive, Shine, Endemol and Core Media

As a child, Sophie Turner Laing and her sisters would put on plays for their parents. Foreshadowing her future executive career, Sophie was always the director. She would turn a profit by charging the audience for biscuits that she had ‘borrowed’ from the kitchen cupboards. But it was working with Jim Henson on The Muppets that she credits with influencing her career path, describing Henson as a ‘gentle creative genius’ who knew how to get the best out of the talent he worked with. After ten years working at Sky, latterly as managing director of content at BSkyB, Turner Laing has recently been made chief executive of newly merged Endemol, Shine and Core Media, granting her even greater influence then in her role as queen of content at Sky.

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