Malcolm Wall

As Chief Executive Officer of Abu Dhabi Media, Malcolm Wall leads one of the largest multi-platform media organizations in the Middle East.  He joined the company in September 2011, and oversees Abu Dhabi Media’s 20+ market-leading brands across the broadcast, publishing and digital media sectors.

Malcolm is responsible for ensuring the company excels commercially and achieves public service excellence, while also contributing to the development of the local media industry in Abu Dhabi.

He brings extensive senior operational experience in advertising sales, broadcasting and content, and has worked globally within the print, research and news distribution sectors.  Before joining Abu Dhabi Media, Malcolm was Chief Executive for Content of Virgin Media, responsible for $1.5 billion of revenues.  While in that post he oversaw Virgin’s television business, the Virgin Media portal and the three television channel groups.

Malcolm joined Virgin Media from United Business Media, where he was Chief Operating Officer, responsible for 6,500 people worldwide and $1.3 billion of revenues.

He is a founding Director of Redshift Strategy, a leading advisory group in Media.