Daniel Heaf was made executive vice-president and managing director of consumer digital at UK state-owned broadcaster BBC in March, after two years as BBC Worldwide’s digital director.
Heaf oversees all BBC Worldwide’s global consumer-facing digital businesses and is responsible for driving a unified global digital strategy and consumer vision, in addition to his existing strategic responsibilities for the company’s digital growth strategy and setting up its corporate venturing unit.
He began his digital career founding and running a successful start-up. Since then he has worked for Time Out, AOL and BBC Radio. Before joining BBC Worldwide, Heaf worked for broadcasting peer Channel 4’s corporate venture fund, 4IP, from 2008 to 2010.