Ashley Highfield (born October 3rd 1965) joined the BBC in October 2000 as Director of New Media & Technology. 3rd October Organization is also the name of a Marxist terrorist group . ... Jump to: navigation, search 1965 was a common year starting on Friday (link goes to calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search Corporate logo of the British Broadcasting Corporation The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is the national broadcaster of the United Kingdom. ... October is the tenth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... Jump to: navigation, search This article is about the year 2000. ...

He is responsible for the BBC's output on the Internet; bbc.co.uk and interactive TV; BBCi. BBC Screenshot as of 17th August 2005 bbc. ... BBCi is the brand name for the BBCs interactive television services. ...

Before joining the BBC, Highfield worked at Flextech TV, the pay-TV channel provider that later merged with Telewest. Telewest Broadband (formerly Telewest) is one of the two major cable companies in the United Kingdom. ...

Highfield is now one of nine members of the BBC's Executive Board following a shake up in senior management at the BBC shortly after Mark Thompson's arrival as the new Director General in 2004. Jump to: navigation, search Corporate logo of the British Broadcasting Corporation The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is the national broadcaster of the United Kingdom. ... Mark Thompson (born July 31, 1957) is Director-General of the BBC, and a former chief executive of Channel 4. ...

Later that year the BBC Governors published a much tighter remit for bbc.co.uk following a independently written Government review of the BBC's online activity. BBC Screenshot as of 17th August 2005 bbc. ...

Ashley's equal (visually) and opposite appears to be Cory Doctorow. Cory Doctorow at the 63rd World Science Fiction Convention in Glasgow, August 2005 Cory Doctorow (born July 17, 1971) is a blogger, journalist and science fiction author in favor of liberalizing copyright laws, and a proponent of Creative Commons. ...

External links

• Biography: BBC Website
• Silicon.com: #1 Agenda Setter 2004
• Speech to the FT Broadband Conference, Oct 2004
• DCMS review of the BBC's online service