Tony Ageh

Tony Ageh OBE, (born 23 December 1959) was until 2023 the New York Public Library's Chief Digital Officer having previously been Controller of Archive Development With four colleagues he set up and ran publishing co-operative Brass Tacks, publishers of Mortgage Magazine, during which time he helped football fanzine When Saturday Comes to gain national distribution and upgrade its production to magazine quality. Also during the 1980s he joined Richard Branson's short-lived London listings magazine, Event, set up while Time Out journalists were on strike, then became publisher of City Limits magazine, by Jim Markwick, then managing director. At the BBC he led the team which devised and developed the BBC iPlayer, which necessitated no fewer than 84 internal BBC presentations. in which he championed the public service use of the BBC's archive through products such as BBC Genome and The research and education space (RES) built in partnership with JISC and the British Universities Film & Video Council, working with former Guardian colleague Bill Thompson.

He was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2015 New Year Honours.