Name Stephen Kirk | Role Businessman | |
Stephen Michael Kirk (born August 28, 1952) is a businessman and entrepreneur from London, UK.
Stephen Kirk founded Cable London Plc along with Jerrold Nathan, Andrew Karney and Malcolm Gee., Broadsystem Ltd,[2] and Broadsystem Ventures, which was a joint venture with Rupert Murdoch's News International. Kirk sold Broadsystem Ltd to News International in 1990 and five years later started a joint venture, Broadsystem Ventures, with News International. He sold his stake in 1999. In the late 1990s he co-founded a real-time astrology website with former Sun editor Kelvin MacKenzie and television pioneer Bruce Gyngell.
From 1999 onwards, Kirk has been involved with other companies at Board-level, including Elisabeth Murdoch's London based TV production company, Shine entertainment where he was a Non-Executive director from 2003 until 2011 when the company was sold to News Corporation for $670m.
Kirk was until recently Chairman of The Ink Factory, a production company owned by Simon and Stephen Cornwell which, among other things, produces works based on the work of their father, John Le Carre. The company has produced several movies including Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy starring Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, and Tom Hardy, and A Most Wanted Man, one of Phillip Seymour Hoffman's last movies, and The Night Manager series for BBC TV and AMC.
Stephen Kirk is a certified Master NLP Practitioner and Executive Coach. He lives in Marylebone, Central London.