Kevin Beatty was appointed to the Board of Daily Mail & General Trust (DMGT) in 2004, having joined the Group in 1996. Prior to this, Kevin was managing director of the Scottish Daily Record and Sunday Mail Ltd at that time, part of Mirror Group plc. With the Group for 17 years, Kevin has been managing director of The Mail on Sunday; managing director of the Evening Standard and London Metro; chief operating officer of Associated New Media; and managing director of Northcliffe Newspapers. Kevin is now Chief Executive of dmg media, the consumer media operation of DMGT plc.

He is a board member of the NPA and represents the UK publishing industry on the Board of WAN-IFRA; he is a non-executive director of the PA Group where he chairs the nominations committee and is a member of the remuneration committee.