Anna Bateson
Chief executive
Anna is the chief executive, a role she took up in September 2022.
Anna worked at the Guardian from 2016 onward, first as VP for platforms and partnerships and then from 2017-2020 as chief customer officer, and briefly as interim chief executive.
Prior to the Guardian, Anna worked at a number of tech and media organisations, including YouTube, Google, ITV, MTV and Bloomberg, and was most recently CEO at a VC-backed e-commerce beauty business.
Katharine Viner
Editor-in-chief
Katharine is the first female editor-in-chief of the Guardian, a position she has held since June 2015. Under her leadership the Guardian created its reader revenue strategy, which has led to millions of supporters funding the Guardian from around the world while keeping the website free to all. She restored the Guardian’s finances, described as “one of the most significant turnarounds in recent British media history”, while making the Guardian a truly international voice through world-leading investigations, on-the-ground reporting on people and power, environmental journalism, culture, sport and multimedia — during her tenure the Guardian became the first news organisation in the world to win an Oscar, a Bafta and three Emmys. She has also championed diversity in the newsroom, dramatically increasing representation and driving the Legacies of Enslavement programme, a 10-year restorative justice initiative in response to the Guardian founders’ links to transatlantic slavery.
Previously, she was deputy editor 2008-2015, launched the market-leading Guardian Australia in 2013, and was editor of Guardian US 2014-2015, based in New York. She launched a fifth edition of the title, Guardian Europe, in 2023. She is the winner of the Diario Madrid prize for journalism for her 2016 long read, How Technology Disrupted the Truth and continues to write regularly about how technology is changing the face of journalism and society. Katharine is based in London.
Pooja Bagga
Chief information officer
Pooja is an accomplished leader with over 25 years’ experience and is renowned for driving high-impact, complex transformations across business and technology. She is responsible for driving the Guardians’ corporate technology and data strategy.
Pooja joined the Guardian from Royal Mail Group where she successfully led a number of large-scale, multi-year transformation projects. This included moving away from legacy technology, streamlining operations during Covid-19 by digitising manual processes and leading Royal Mail’s recovery from a cyber-attack. She was also the executive sponsor of the diversity, equity and inclusion network.
Prior to joining Royal Mail Pooja led ERP transformation, merger and acquisition activities and cross company integrations at British Airways, Transport for London (TfL) and IAG.
Suzy Black
Group HR director
Suzy joined GMG in April 2014 and is responsible for the full range of HR functions, including employee relations, training and development, organisational change, pensions, reward, diversity and sustainability. Before joining GMG, Suzy was HR director at Lloyd’s of London, the world’s specialist insurance market, conducting business in more than 200 countries. Prior to that she held senior HR positions across a diverse range of businesses including ICI, Barclays and MSN UK. Suzy graduated in 1998 from University College London and subsequently gained a Masters from the London School of Economics in 2001. She is actively involved with LSE and has been a member of its board since 2004. Suzy is also a member of LSE’s remuneration committee.
Allan Donald
Chief product officer
Allan is responsible for delivering the product vision that shapes how millions of people around the world consume and engage with Guardian journalism.
Allan joined as VP of product in January 2026 before being promoted to chief product officer. He works closely with senior leaders in the Guardian’s newsrooms in the UK, US, and Australia and leads the teams developing innovative features and experiences that drive audience growth and engagement to support our editorial mission.
He joined the Guardian from Netflix where, as director of product, he was responsible for overseeing the cross-functional teams dedicated to driving content discovery. Allan has also held senior roles at the BBC and Bloomberg and began his career in editorial roles at Scottish Television and the Herald Group.
Vicky Frost
Senior managing editor
Vicky is responsible for the editorial budget and works closely with features, culture, opinion, visuals and digital departments, as well as supporting the new editorial training and development team.
Vicky joined the Guardian in 2006 as a features commissioning editor and held roles including deputy media editor, TV & radio editor, and culture and features editor for Guardian Australia. She is proud to have been part of the team who launched the Guardian’s supporter model. She was previously head of Life for HuffPost UK and was managing director of the PA Media Academy, which provides apprentice and mid-career training for the UK’s leading news and communications organisations, before rejoining the Guardian in 2024.
Imogen Fox
Global chief advertising officer
Imogen leads the Guardian’s advertising strategy, overseeing key relationships with clients and agencies. Imogen has held a number of vital leadership roles in the commercial department since 2016, most recently as director of advertising, heading the commercial teams responsible for client relationships, marketing, strategy and content. Previously she was executive editor of Guardian Labs, leading their award-winning branded content partnerships.
Prior to this, Imogen worked for the Guardian in editorial, progressing from assistant fashion editor to head of fashion. In this role, Imogen drove the Guardian’s global reputation for intelligent fashion reporting, features and visuals.
Owen Gibson
Deputy editor, Guardian News & Media
Owen is deputy editor, responsible for day-to-day digital output, the Monday to Friday paper, reader relationships including membership, investigations, production and sport. Prior to his appointment in January 2020, Owen was head of national news during a period that included the Brexit negotiations, the Windrush scandal and the 2019 general election.
Owen joined the Guardian in 2001 as new media editor for the then recently launched MediaGuardian website. Between 2004 and 2016 he was Guardian media correspondent, sports news correspondent and chief sports correspondent. In 2016, Owen became head of sport and during his tenure the Guardian won the SJA sports newspaper and website of the year awards for coverage including the football abuse scandal.
James Goode
Chief financial officer
James is responsible for the Guardian’s financial strategy, business continuity and risk. He joined the Guardian following six years as group chief financial officer and executive director of PA Media Group. While at PA James helped drive significant growth, led major acquisitions and played a central role in strengthening financial, operational and governance capabilities. Prior to this James served as group chief financial officer for Lonrho Ltd and held senior roles at BT plc. He is an ACA-qualified chartered accountant.
Caspar Llewellyn Smith
Chief AI officer
Caspar is responsible for exploring the deployment of artificial intelligence across GNM in line with our principles. He was previously chief product officer, serving in that role for five years, where he led the teams responsible for the development of the Guardian’s website and award-winning apps and ground-breaking tools used by our newsroom.
Prior to that he was a journalist, joining GNM in 2003 to launch a monthly music magazine for the Observer, before becoming the Guardian’s first head of culture, in which role he was responsible for developing a digital first approach to the Guardian’s arts coverage. Subsequently he became the editor of theguardian.com and GNM’s other digital platforms and director of digital strategy. He joined the executive committee in 2015.
Douglas McCabe
Chief strategy and business development officer
Douglas is responsible for strategic initiatives and global transformation projects as well as overseeing partnerships with global platforms and other partners.
Prior to joining the Guardian Douglas was CEO of Enders Analysis. He has a vast amount of media industry experience, having produced hundreds of influential reports and advised publishers in the UK and beyond on topics from technology disruption to collaboration opportunities and journalism revenue models.
Sheila Pulham
Senior managing editor
Sheila works closely with editorial departments including the national, politics, investigations, environment and multimedia teams and the editorial legal department. She liaises with the readers’ editor, communication and advertising teams on editorial compliance, policy and brand issues.
Before joining the managing editors’ team in 2012 Sheila worked in a variety of editing and planning roles in the Guardian newsroom, including as the news editor and assistant editor of the Guardian’s website Guardian Unlimited during a period of digital expansion and innovation.
Liz Wynn
Chief supporter officer
Liz joined the Guardian in 2023 as chief supporter officer and is responsible for driving digital supporter revenues.
Liz has 20 years of commercial, marketing and operational experience in media and telecoms sectors, having led a broad range of marketing and commercial teams at Sky, EE and Orange, and launching a sequence of groundbreaking consumer propositions, including Sky Mobile and Sky Glass, and EE 4G. She is a trustee of the Royal Society for Public Health.