Lygo, up 16 places to number 7, overtakes his chief executive Andy Duncan as Channel 4's highest placed executive.
The pool of career executive assistants is shrinking, said Margaret Luca, whose recruitment firm, M. Luca & Associates in New York, does at least one-third of its business in placing executive assistants for high-level officers.
This year's highest placed casualty is Ofcom chief executive Stephen Carter, who will step down in October.
Yet, stealing high-placed executives at the big gaming companies?
Ralph Bernard, one of the architects of the first major consolidation deals - between GWR and Capital Radio to form GCap Media - is once again the second highest place radio executive on this year's MediaGuardian 100, at No 29.
Tillman and the BFC chief executive Caroline Rush have secured friends in high places on both sides of the political spectrum.
But even though company executives contributed heavily to Bush's presidential campaign, they are unlikely to see benefits from having friends in high places.
He ascended to high places.
She has many friends in high places.
