Nicholas Eustace Haddon Ferguson CBE (born 24 October 1948) is a British businessman, the chairman of

BskyB Sky UK Limited is a British broadcaster and telecommunications company that provides television and broadband Internet services, fixed line and mobile telephone services to consumers and businesses in the United Kingdom. It is a subsidiary of ...

plc and former chairman of

SVG Capital SVG Capital () was a leading British private equity and investment management business. Headquartered in London, it was listed on the London Stock Exchange. History The business was established in 1996 to acquire the private equity interests of ...

plc.

Early life

Ferguson has a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Edinburgh, and an MBA from

Harvard Business School Harvard Business School (HBS) is the graduate business school of Harvard University, a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. It is consistently ranked among the top business schools in the world and offers a large full-time MBA p ...

Career

From 1996 to 2005, Ferguson was chief executive of SVG Capital, until he moved on to the chairmanship in 2006. Ferguson resigned as chairman of SVG Capital, prior to becoming chairman of

in April 2012, replacing James Murdoch. According to '' The Financial Times'', "After eight years as a non-executive director, some investors question whether Mr Ferguson is sufficiently independent of the News Corp empire". He was also first chairman (2002-2012) of the Courtauld Institute of Art.

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