As President for Global News & Streaming, Tara Maitra oversees all digital products that bring the BBC’s renowned news and factual content to millions of people outside the UK every day. Under her leadership, BBC Studios, in collaboration with BBC News, successfully transformed and relaunched the BBC.com website and BBC app in early 2024, broadening access to the BBC’s world-class journalism and storytelling for audiences worldwide.

Maitra first joined BBC Studios in 2021, and most recently served as Chief Commercial Officer for Global Media & Streaming, where she led commercial growth strategy internationally.

Before joining BBC Studios, Maitra was the Chief Revenue Office at BDEX, a data exchange platform designed to help companies identify target audiences, where she oversaw revenue growth, business development, and marketing efforts. Prior to that, Maitra spent 11 years at TiVo, where she served on the executive leadership team as Senior Vice President and General Manager for TiVo’s content, advertising sales, and data businesses. Tara was responsible for launching and operating TiVo’s OTT content strategy. She also had oversight of TiVo’s human resource department. Before TiVo, Maitra held executive roles at Comcast, Primedia, and NBC.