BBC digital expert Tony Ageh poached by New York Public Library

Co-creator of the iPlayer criticises the corporation's bureaucracy as he leaves after 14 years

Tony Ageh, one of the architects of the BBC iPlayer, is to leave the corporation after 14 years to join the New York Public Library as chief digital officer.

Until the US institution approached him earlier this year, he says had no intention of leaving the BBC. Ageh, most recently controller of the BBC archive, has been one of its most dogged technology advocates, routinely pushing the TV-centric corporation to embrace the internet as the best way to deliver its obligation to inform, educate and entertain.