Biography

Martyn has responsibility for all legal and business affairs, including the negotiation of transactions and joint ventures, rights and deals management and talent accounting, crisis management, together with governance and regulatory matters including editorial and commercial policy, company secretarial and compliance.

Martyn was appointed General Counsel for BBC Worldwide in 2011, having previously led BBC Worldwide's Legal and Business Affairs teams, as Group Head and then Director. In these roles, he worked on the creation of partnerships such as BBC Books and 2entertain, the divestments of BBC Magazines and BBC Audiobooks, the re-structuring of joint ventures with Discovery, the financing and production of BBC Worldwide's slate of natural history feature films and the partnership between BBC America and AMC Networks.

Prior to this, Martyn worked in a variety of roles across the BBC, including as Head of Business Affairs, Radio & Music, Factual & Learning and News.
- IMDb mini biography by: BBC Studios Official Website