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BBC's director of future media off to pastures new

...and technology division for more than two years. He took over from Ashley Highfield, who left to join Microsoft. Huggers is also a member of... Read more

19 January, 2011 by Natasha Lomas

Ex-iPlayer boss made Microsoft UK consumer chief

Microsoft has appointed Ashley Highfield as its new managing director of UK consumer and online operations... Read more

10 November, 2008 by David Meyer

Project Kangaroo axed by regulators

...with on-demand. The man largely responsible for the iPlayer's success, Ashley Highfield, left the BBC to head up Kangaroo in April, but left... Read more

4 February, 2009 by David Meyer

Agenda Setters: Where are they now... Ashley Highfield

...in 2005. Today we catch up with last year's number 3, Ashley Highfield. It's been another very busy year for Ashley Highfield, the... Read more

19 September, 2006 by silicon.com staff

Agenda Setters: Where are they now... Ashley Highfield

...positions in 2004. Today we catch up with last year's winner, Ashley Highfield. The BBC's director of new media and technology topped our... Read more

21 September, 2005 by silicon.com staff

Beeb appoints new iPlayer chief

...is currently group controller of the Future Media and Technology division, replaces Ashley Highfield - who left to become CEO of on-demand online media player... Read more

18 July, 2008 by Natasha Lomas

BBC tech chief hits back at iPlayer critics

...silicon.com the BBC's head of Future Media and Technology unit, Ashley Highfield, said the criticism has been unfair. He said: "It would be... Read more

30 October, 2007 by Andy McCue

BBC iPlayer goes public

...impact of the iPlayer to the launch of colour television in 1967. Ashley Highfield, director of future media and technology at the BBC said the... Read more

27 June, 2007 by Tim Ferguson

BBC2 goes mad for broadband

...a move to emerging forms of broadcasting content – a charge led by Ashley Highfield, a silicon.com Agenda Setter and the Beeb's director of... Read more

25 November, 2005 by Will Sturgeon

Agenda Setters: Where are they now... Ashley Highfield

...in 2007. Today we catch up with last year's number five, Ashley Highfield. Ashley Highfield was, until recently, the driving force behind the BBC... Read more

16 September, 2008 by silicon.com staff

Q&A: Ashley Highfield, head of BBC's Future Media and Technology unit

...unfair... As head of the BBC's Future Media and Technology unit Ashley Highfield, one of this year's silicon.com Agenda Setters, is responsible... Read more

30 October, 2007 by Andy McCue

BBC's digital supremo quits

Ashley Highfield, champion Birtspeaker and outgoing (now in multiple ways) chief of "future... Read more

14 April, 2008

Auntie Relents... (reluctantly)

A somewhat recalcitrant Beeb Engineer by the name of Ashley Highfield announced at Cannes that due to a sustained voting campaign by... Read more

19 April, 2007

Online TV - why this is only the beginning

Ashley Highfield on the future of telly Online television has a bright future... Read more

12 February, 2009 by Tim Ferguson

Microsoft declares Bing UK ready for action

...internet proving very popular," Microsoft's UK head of consumer and online, Ashley Highfield, said in a statement on Friday. Highfield highlighted Bing features such... Read more

13 November, 2009 by David Meyer

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