Matthew Postgate

Matthew Postgate (born 10 November 1974)[1] is a British digital strategist (technology strategist), and the BBC's Chief Technology Officer (CTO).[2]

Early life

He was born in Hampshire. He is the son of Ian (born 1946) and Rosemary Postgate, who married in Horsham in 1968. His grandparents were Robert Postgate and Vera Barron, who married in 1934. He grew up in Cambridge. He has an older sister. He studied Politics at the University of Bristol from 1994 to 1997.

Career

He graduated from university when the dot-com bubble was precariously developing, and he worked for a dot-com bubble company from 1999 to 2001.

He joined the BBC in 2003. From 2007 to 2008 he was controller of BBC mobile. He became the Controller of BBC Research & Development, which employed around 150 people. He became Chief Technology Officer on 28 July 2014. The BBC's much-heralded Digital Media Initiative was scrapped, which had been planned to start by 2011.

He became Chief Technology and Product Officer in April 2016, responsible for the BBC Design & Engineering division[3]. He announced his resignation internally from the BBC on 30 July 2020. His remuneration was £310,000[2].

Directorships

His past and present directorships include;

Personal life

He lives in Maida Vale.

gollark: It's apparently possible to see what people are seeing by reading their brain activity in an MRI scanner now, but those are hardly conducive to sleep and dreams probably don't use the same hardware.
gollark: Dream journal things, plausibly.
gollark: I don't think you can meaningfully do that. Atoms are smaller than the wavelength of visible light. It wouldn't make sense.
gollark: You don't use an adblocker?
gollark: Argument by analogy is mostly bad, actually.

References
  1. "Matthew Leigh POSTGATE - Personal Appointments (from Companies House)". beta.companieshouse.gov.uk. Retrieved 2017-03-12.
  2. "Matthew Postgate". Inside the BBC. Retrieved 2017-05-21.
  3. "BBC - Matthew Postgate appointed Chief Technology Officer to lead new division - Media Centre". bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2017-03-12.
  4. "Matthew Leigh POSTGATE - Personal Appointments". Companies House (beta). GOV.UK. Retrieved 30 July 2020.
  5. "Non-Executive Director appointments". GOV.UK. Strategic Command. Retrieved 30 July 2020.
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