Matthew Huntington
Founder and Principal Consultant
Matthew is an experienced CTO and product director with over 30 years’ experience of deploying digital solutions. He has spent much of this time at the forefront of digital video developments and the user experiences surrounding them.
His key achievements include:
- Launching Arqade, a cloud based global media interchange that offers a cost effective and agile alternative to conventional physical interchanges
- Launching Arqplex, a headend-as-a-service that will revolutionize headend services for service providers in close partnership with MediaKind
- Established a new IOT offerings for the utilities industry based on hybrid connectivity and managed sensors, with data analytics services to deliver valuable business insights from the collected data
- Migrated Freesat’s operational systems to a purpose-built cloud-based solution, significantly reducing operational costs and increasing flexibility, supported by an in-house agile engineering team
- Established large scale data capture from end-user services, moving Freesat to a more data-driven culture
- Developed an international business selling Freesat’s in-house solutions and operations
- Conceived the concept of the HbbTV Operator application
- Transformed NAGRA’s marketing messaging from being product-focused to being solution-focused, turning a fragmented presentation culture into one providing integrated demonstrations
- Produced an influential study on the impact of OTT economics on traditional satellite TV services
- Oversaw the introduction of the one the first personal video recorder (PVR/DVR) product lines
- Integrated the product lines from multiple acquisitions at OpenTV (e.g. Wink, ACTV, SpotON)
- Led a major project to define a new vision for the television user-interface, which drove a shift in the industry to be user-experience focused
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