Simon Kingston

So unsurprisingly, this is a man who has been garlanded with a host of different accolades. He's won the Emmy Founders Award. He's won Amphar's Award of Courage. He was inducted into the Cable Hall of Fame. He was the UN Global Citizen of the Year. And particularly important on this side of the Atlantic, he last year won the Winston Churchill Leadership Medal. Bill, welcome to Redefine Us.

So unsurprisingly, this is a man who has been garlanded with a host of different accolades. He's won the Emmy Founders Award. He's won Amphar's Award of Courage. He was inducted into the Cable Hall of Fame. He was the UN Global Citizen of the Year. And particularly important on this side of the Atlantic, he last year won the Winston Churchill Leadership Medal. Bill, welcome to Redefine Us.

Thank you, Simon. Some of that's actually true. And it's exhausting just to read it. To have lived it is amazing. Let's begin, as they say, at the beginning. The principle of public service, and in particular of military service, didn't start in your family with you.

Thank you, Simon. Some of that's actually true. And it's exhausting just to read it. To have lived it is amazing. Let's begin, as they say, at the beginning. The principle of public service, and in particular of military service, didn't start in your family with you.

Thank you, Simon. Some of that's actually true. And it's exhausting just to read it. To have lived it is amazing. Let's begin, as they say, at the beginning. The principle of public service, and in particular of military service, didn't start in your family with you.

Tell us a little bit about the influence of your father's decorated military career on you, and indeed the influence, no doubt in a different way, of your mother's. in the formation of your character and the values that have obviously run as a seam through your career?

Tell us a little bit about the influence of your father's decorated military career on you, and indeed the influence, no doubt in a different way, of your mother's. in the formation of your character and the values that have obviously run as a seam through your career?

Tell us a little bit about the influence of your father's decorated military career on you, and indeed the influence, no doubt in a different way, of your mother's. in the formation of your character and the values that have obviously run as a seam through your career?

And you then took something of that work ethic into your own early military career. You were at West Point yourself. You served in Vietnam. You were serially decorated for your service there. What do you think you took from that experience into your business life?

And you then took something of that work ethic into your own early military career. You were at West Point yourself. You served in Vietnam. You were serially decorated for your service there. What do you think you took from that experience into your business life?

And you then took something of that work ethic into your own early military career. You were at West Point yourself. You served in Vietnam. You were serially decorated for your service there. What do you think you took from that experience into your business life?

And what about the experience of being in combat in a conflict situation?

And what about the experience of being in combat in a conflict situation?

And what about the experience of being in combat in a conflict situation?

And the transition from that, I mean, two points of transition, as you say, the return to a society that was not necessarily welcoming and the decision to move into a business sector that in some ways, and this is a glib observation, but it's almost as opposed culturally to to the military on the face of it, as you can imagine, the kind of the culture of media and of rock music.

And the transition from that, I mean, two points of transition, as you say, the return to a society that was not necessarily welcoming and the decision to move into a business sector that in some ways, and this is a glib observation, but it's almost as opposed culturally to to the military on the face of it, as you can imagine, the kind of the culture of media and of rock music.

And the transition from that, I mean, two points of transition, as you say, the return to a society that was not necessarily welcoming and the decision to move into a business sector that in some ways, and this is a glib observation, but it's almost as opposed culturally to to the military on the face of it, as you can imagine, the kind of the culture of media and of rock music.

I mean, it's quite a long way from the discipline of West Point, isn't it? Tell us a bit about those two transitions, because they must have been formative.

I mean, it's quite a long way from the discipline of West Point, isn't it? Tell us a bit about those two transitions, because they must have been formative.

I mean, it's quite a long way from the discipline of West Point, isn't it? Tell us a bit about those two transitions, because they must have been formative.