Mr John O'Donovan

"John O'Donovan is CTO of the Financial Times running a Development and Operations team across the FT Group and playing a pivotal role in using technology to shape the successful transition of the FT into a leading and innovative digital publisher. He is a technologist obsessed with delivering great products on top of great platforms.
Previously he has been Chief Architect of BBC iPlayer being instrumental in shaping a product that revolutionised the Video On Demand market and Chief Architect at BBC News and Sport and Director of Technology at the Press Association. He has developed many innovations in content management products and services including the use of Semantic technologies as well as broad knowledge across the entire technology space and how this drives business value.
Utterly focused on building great products for customers through the use of effective modern architectural approaches.