Matthew Postgate (born 10 November 1974) is a British digital technology strategist. He was the

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's Chief Technical Officer from 2016 to 2020.

Early life

He was born in

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. He is the son of Ian (born 1946) and Rosemary Postgate, who married in

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in 1968. His grandparents were Robert Postgate and Vera Barron, who married in 1934. He grew up in

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. He has an older sister. He studied Politics at the

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from 1994 to 1997.

Career

He graduated from university when the

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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 BBC Research & Development is the technical research department of the BBC. Function It has responsibility for researching and developing advanced and emerging media technologies for the benefit of the corporation, and wider UK and European m ...

, 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 BBC Design & Engineering (styled as BBC Design + Engineering) was an operational business division of the BBC, which combined the BBC Digital, BBC Engineering and BBC Worldwide Technology divisions. It is responsible for all of the BBC's digital ...

division. He announced his resignation internally from the BBC on 30 July 2020, his last day being 1 September 2020. His remuneration was £317,000.

Directorships

His past and present directorships include; *

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as a

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from 10 September 2010 to 5 November 2014. *

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as a

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from 28 January 2020.

Personal life

He lives in

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References

External links

BBC - About the BBC - Who we are - Matthew Postgate, Chief Technology and Product Officer

BBC - About the BBC Blog - Engineering a more flexible and efficient BBC for the future
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