As Banijay UK’s Executive Chairman Patrick oversees the management and strategic direction of the UK group’s portfolio of over 20 scripted and unscripted production labels.

He joined Banijay in May 2022 from the BBC, where he was Director, Factual, Arts & Classical Music (appointed April 2021) and prior to this Channel Controller of BBC Two (appointed March 2017) where he oversaw the revitalisation of the channel and built an unparalleled pipeline of series that graduated to BBC One.

Prior to joining BBC Two, Patrick was Head of Commissioning, Documentaries for the BBC and during his tenure new returning brands Ambulance, Reported Missing, The Real Marigold Hotel  and Exodus were delivered or developed. Before joining the broadcaster, Patrick was managing director of one of the UK’s biggest factual independent production companies, Boundless (part of Fremantle Media UK).