Tony Ageh OBE, (born 23rd December, 1959) was until 2023 the New York Public Library's Chief Digital Officer[1] having previously been Controller of Archive Development[2] at the BBC.

His first job as a school leaver was production assistant on Home Organist, working for Richard Desmond, subsequently the proprietor of Express Newspapers.

He then moved to Publishing Holdings, which owned list titles including What Mortgage and What Telephone.

[3] With four colleagues he set up and ran publishing co-operative Brass Tacks, publishers of Mortgage Magazine, during which time he helped football fanzine When Saturday Comes to gain national distribution and upgrade its production to magazine quality.

He was invited to join the Guardian Media Group in 1990[4] by Jim Markwick, then managing director.