TV executive signs up for board of student firm

A media executive behind some of TV’s biggest hits has joined the board of student accommodation firm Unite.

Angela Jain worked on hits such as Love Island, Misfits and The Inbetweeners, and has concentrated on TV aimed at a younger audience.

She has joined the board of the Bristol company with the aim of helping the connect with students who stay in Unite’s properties.

Angela has had a long and successful career in the commercial television industry at ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5, with a strong focus on younger audiences.

For the past twelve years she has held senior executive roles at ITV where she is currently director of unscripted UK television.

In her roles she has commissioned and developed many of the most popular and commercially successful programmes of the past twenty years, including Love Island, Misfits and The Inbetweeners.

This focus on younger audiences has required Angela to remain in-touch with this generation giving her deep knowledge and understanding of the needs, wants and behaviours of young people.

Angela has previous Non-Executive Director experience having sat on the board of BusinessLDN for the past eight years, where she is currently deputy chair, gaining strong insights into the broader business community, government and other key stakeholders in London.

She has also served as a Non-Executive Director on the Board of ITN.

Angela will join Unite’s Health & Safety Committee, where her extensive experience of working in unscripted television focused on younger audiences will provide valuable wellbeing and safeguarding insight.

Unite chair Richard Huntingford: “I am delighted to welcome Angela to the board as a Non-Executive Director.

She will be a great addition to the board bringing a detailed understanding of our students, their changing needs, and what really matters to them as Unite customers.

“This, in addition to her extensive digital, brand and comms experience, will add significant value to the Board and the Unite business. I look forward very much to working with Angela.”

 

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