Peter Hutton is Facebook’s director of sports partnerships and in charge of the group’s global relationship with sport across Facebook, Instagram, Whats App, Messenger, Portal and Oculus. He was originally a sports journalist on local radio, then moved via local TV, BSB and Sky, to IMG (where he launched Futbol Mundial). He accidently became IMG’s first employee in India, and lived in Delhi, Hong Kong and Colombo for 8 years at the time satellite TV was arriving in Asia. Peter helped start Ten Sports in Dubai in 2002 before joining Fox, and becoming MD at ESPN/Star in Singapore, which he re-branded as Fox Sports. Before joining Facebook two years ago he was co-CEO of rights agency MP & Silva in London, before joining Eurosport as CEO in 2014.
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