Robert Boyle MA FCA read law at Oxford and practised as a partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he led the UK and European Media and Entertainment Practice until 2007. Since then he has been a non-executive director of a number of public companies in publishing, investment and telecommunications and in the public sector.

He is currently a director of Witan Investment Trust, Centaur Media plc and the Hampshire Cultural Trust and a member of the Audit Committee of English Heritage.