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Formerly SVP Technology & Operations at A+E Networks UK, Matt Westrup has been CTO of Hearst Networks EMEA since 2024 and joined the broadcaster’s EMEA leadership team when it was created in 2013. He is responsible for the operations and technology teams that manage content and deliver the channels and digital portfolio across the EMEA territories and oversees media operations, localisation, post production, engineering and distribution as well as delivering technology-led projects and change across the business.
Prior to joining Hearst, Westrup led the operations teams at Scripps Networks Interactive EMEA and, before that, at Travel Channel International. He began working in media operations ten years ago having previously been in factual television production as a Camera Operator and Director.
He is a member of the DPP Advisory Committee, The IABM UK Industry Advisory Board and is the A+E Networks UK representative on the Albert Consortium.