Rob leads the BBC’s Daytime and Early Peak Commissioning team, responsible for 1500 hours of output on BBC One, Two and iPlayer. Prior to that he ran The One Show, and launched Morning Live, after several years as Head of the BBC Studios Factual team in Salford, where he exec’ed a number of award-winning docs and popular factual series. In his time at the BBC he has also been Editor of Watchdog, and a Senior Adviser in Editorial Policy.

Eddie is responsible for BBC Northern Ireland’s Commissioning Department. Since taking on this role in 2020, he has commissioned a range of content for Network and local audiences, across multiple genres. These include documentaries Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland, On Drugs, Kinahan: The True Story of Ireland's Mafia, Bombing Brighton: The Plot to Kill Thatcher, and Jailed: Inside Maghaberry Prison, and scripted content, Leonard & Hungry Paul, Dead & Buried, That They May Face the Rising Sun, Hope Street, Crá and Funboys. Previously, at RTÉ, he launched and ran the investigative documentary strand Prime Time Investigates, before moving into commissioning across genres - documentaries A Mother Brings Her Son to Be Shot, Maurice McCabe: Whistleblower, and The Man Who Wanted to Fly and comedy The Young Offenders, Mrs Browns Boys, The Republic of Telly, The Savage Eye, Can’t Cope, Won’t Cope and The Tommy Tiernan Show. Eddie is from Belfast. He joined BBC NI in February 2018, to run in-house production, before moving into his current role in commissioning. He studied Law at Trinity College Dublin, has a Masters in Journalism from Dublin City University, and Diplomas in Strategy & Innovation from the Irish Management Institute. He has worked in print journalism, TV production and commissioning in the UK and Ireland, and received Ireland’s TV Journalist of the Year Award in 2001 for his work in Afghanistan.