Sophie Henrietta Turner Laing, OBE (born 7 September 1960) is a British businesswoman and media executive.
She was chief executive officer of global content creator, producer and distributor Endemol Shine Group from December 2014 until July 2020.
She previously worked for the BBC as the acting director of television and, along with Peter Orton and Jim Henson, was a founder of HIT Entertainment.
[4] In 1998, she moved to the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), where she worked as controller of programme acquisitions for five years.
In January 2016 she received the Brandon Tartikoff Legacy Award in recognition of "extraordinary passion, leadership, independence and vision in the process of creating television programming."
[citation needed] In the 2018 Queen's Birthday Honours, she was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) "for services to the media".