Jonty Usborne

Jonty Usborne
Usborne at the 2013 Radio Academy Awards
Born	Jonathan Usborne (1990-07-17) 17 July 1990 (age 27) Brussels, Belgium
Education	Haileybury & Imperial Service College University of Bath
Engineering career
Discipline	Broadcast engineering Software engineering
Employer(s)	BBC Radio Academy Student Radio Association The Independent
Projects	UK Radioplayer Console Unified Station Management Responsive Radio
Awards	2013 Student Radio Award for Best Technical Achievement 2014 Radio Academy Award for Best Technical Innovation 2014 Student Radio Award for Best Technical Achievement 2015 Student Radio Award for Best Technical Achievement

Haileybury & Imperial Service College

Jonathan "Jonty" Usborne (born 17 July 1990) is a producer and broadcast engineer at BBC News, and writer for The Independent, noted for having won awards such as the Student Radio Award for Best Technical Achievement and the Radio Academy Award for Best Technical Innovation. He is the first university student to have won in a technical category at the Radio Academy Awards. As of 2016^[update], he is a software engineer for the BBC and the Chair of the Student Radio Association. He also sits on the Trustee Board of the Radio Academy.

Born in Brussels, raised in Old Greenwich, Connecticut, and educated at Haileybury & Imperial Service College, Usborne became involved in student radio in 2009, after commencing studying economics at the University of Bath. After being elected in 2011 to the position of Head of Online Media at University Radio Bath—the university's student radio station—he developed FRANCESCA, a station management system and console for the UK's Radioplayer application. Usborne submitted his system for consideration in the Best Technical Innovation category at the 2013 Student Radio Awards, and was awarded gold that November. The judges described his application as "a real innovation".