Fru Hazlitt
In December 2007 Fru was appointed chief executive of GCap Media plc the largest commercial radio company in the UK. Shortly before her appointment was announced the company received a takeover bid from Global Radio. Several bids later and after a prolonged and high profile period of intense negotiation the company was sold in the summer of 2008.
Fru previously spent 2 years as chief executive of Virgin Radio. Prior to this Fru spent 6 years at Yahoo! firstly, as European sales director and then as MD of Yahoo UK & Ireland. She arrived at a time when dot coms were moving from boom to bust and having faced this challenge she has a clear vision of the future of Interactive technology, the opportunity it presents and the need to listen to a generation who have grown up with the web.
She has over 20 years of sales and marketing experience within the Media Sector including roles at The Guardian Media Group and Capital Radio.
Fru is non executive board director of Betfair and governor of Downe House School and until recently was a non executive director of Woolworths Group plc. She is a regular speaker at business forums and seminars and in 2005 she was named by the CBI as UK’s First Woman of Media.
She was educated at Downe House School and London University where she studied English and Drama. She is a dedicated runner having run nine marathons altogether, is a Fulham season ticket holder and has 3 children under 7!
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