Patrick Delany
Patrick is FOXTEL’s Executive Director – Sales and Product Development. In this role he is responsible for leading customer acquisition contrubution and day to day relationships with all external pay TV channel suppliers as well as FOXTEL Product development.
Uniquely, Patrick is responsible for acquiring content and creating product formulations that fuse content with technology; and then has the task of selling it to Australia.
Patrick joined FOXTEL in 2002 as Director of Digital to lead FOXTEL’s digital transformation which occurred in March 2004. FOXTEL Digital, FOXTEL iQ, FOXTEL MOBILE, FOXTEL in Virgin Airlines, FOXTEL on DEMAND, FOXTEL HD and FOXTEL Next Generation are all product innovations that have occurred on his watch. Prior to this he was Chief Executive of XYZ Networks, a channel creation and production business owned by FOXTEL and AUSTAR. He also has experience in TV production via a start with Southern Star Entertainment (Australia’s premier producton Company) and started his business career in the 1990’s as a media lawyer with Gilbert and Tobin.
In June 2008 Acquisition Sales was added to Patrick’s responsibilities encompassing all PULL and PUSH Sales Channels at FOXTEL.
