Jonathan Jackson

Member since 2024

Jonathan is Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer at Plimsoll Productions, a premium unscripted TV production company, based in Bristol, and since 2022 a subsidiary of ITV plc. He has 30+ years of strategic, operational, and financial experience in the media and entertainment industry, with a career that spans television, music, and live events. Prior to Plimsoll he spent 6 years at DRG, then the UK’s largest independent international TV distributor. As COO/CFO, Jonathan acts as a business partner to the CEO, adding rigour to strategic decisions, devising, and implementing growth objectives. At both companies, he played a key role in raising private equity funds, M&A activity, and subsequent trade sales. Jonathan has also held senior financial roles at the BBC and Channel 4, and prior to DRG, spent 4 years at Ingenious Media, an investment house, advising companies both pre and post funding.

A former national schools athletics championship medalist and member of Bristol rugby club academy, Jonathan is a prime example of someone who has used sport as a catalyst to be the best person he can be. It is therefore no surprise that he is committed to supporting local sports, as a committee member of both Bristol and West Athletics club, and Bristol Central Youth football club. He is also a trustee of the PRS foundation, the UK’s leading charitable funder of new music and talent development.

Jonathan is a qualified accountant and has an MBA from the University of Bath.

He is married to Madge, a criminal solicitor, and they live in Bristol with two teenage children.