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Ashley Highfield (born on October 3, 1965) has been appointed head of Project Kangaroo. He is the former Director of the Future Media and Technology group at the BBC. At the time of his appointment to the BBC he was, at 34, the youngest ever member of the organisation's Executive Board. His department is responsible for the BBC's internet presence - bbc.co.uk, interactive TV - BBCi, mobile services, the BBC's technology portfolio and the BBC’s Archive.
In November, 2007 he courted controversy by launching the iPlayer only on the Windows platform

, and angered the linux community by initially claiming that the BBC website had only 600 linux visitors

. Subsequent iPlayer releases for the Mac, Linux and iPhone have been welcomed by these communities. The iPlayer has been a significant success with currently 500,000 programs being watch each day from a userbase of over 2 Million

and adding 25% growth to the content served via bbc.co.uk since December 2007.

Career

Educated at Elizabeth College, Guernsey, Highfield worked as first as a computer programmer before turning management consultant.. In 1994 he returned to the UK to become head of IT and New Media for NBC Europe.
In April 2008 it was announced that Highfield is to leave the BBC to head up Project Kangaroo.
Highfield is a Chartered Engineer.

Awards

Highfield has won several awards, including the following:

In 2003, Highfield was awarded the Digital Innovator internet award by The Sunday Times.
In 2004, he was named the ‘most influential individual in technology’ by online technology news site Silicon.com (External Link).
In 2004, he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
In 2007, he was made a Fellow of the Royal Television Society

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