Global has announced that Alex Duncan will become its new Chief Technology Officer starting 1st September 2025.

Dunacn is joining from the British Heart Foundation, where she has been CTO since 2022.

She led a team of over 350 people and focused on using AI to boost the charity’s impact. Before that, she was CTO at Ambassador Theatre Group, Director of IT at QVC, and Head of Online Development at lastminute.com, where she began her career as a software engineer.

At Global, Alex will join the board and report directly to Group CEO Simon Pitts.

She will lead a 200-person technology team covering areas like broadcast engineering, ad tech, cyber security, data, and enterprise systems.

Simon Pitts, Group CEO at Global, said: “I’m delighted to welcome Alex Duncan as Global’s new Chief Technology Officer. Thisis a critical role at Global, where technology, innovation and building brilliant products is very much in our DNA. Alex brings over two decades of deep technical expertise, leadership and a real passion for media. She has led large-scale, transformative projects with great success and knows how to build exciting products, while her recent successful delivery of a significant organisation-wide transformation at the British Heart Foundation has demonstrated both leadership and vision. She’s also no stranger to audio, having launched the UK arm of streaming station PulseRadio 25 years ago. We’re very excited to have Alex on board.”

Alex Duncan added: “I’m thrilled to be joining Global at such an exciting time – the company has incredible ambition and technology has driven exciting innovation in both audio and outdoor media. This opportunity is a perfect convergence of my early love for radio and my passion for using technology to drive meaningful change. I’m really looking forward to working with the brilliant teams at Global when I join them later this year.”