Dawn Airey joins LoveFilm board

Five chairman and chief executive Dawn Airey has joined movie rental service LoveFilm as non-executive director, with immediate effect.

She has previously held senior management roles at ITV, BSkyB, Channel 4 and Five.

She said: “Lovefilm’s business model has not only redefined the way people rent and watch movies in the home, its international growth and recent foray into streaming services delivered via both the PC and the TV, shows that this is not a company that’s prepared to stand still.”

Guardian Media Group’s group director of digital strategy, Simon Waldman, left the publisher last month to join LoveFilm as group product director.

He was launch editor of Guardian Unlimited in 1999 and was group director of digital strategy and development from 2006.