Meet the team

Julian Shutt

Partner

Julian helps to untangle complex challenges and build smart, effective solutions. He combines deep technical know-how with strategic thinking to deliver real results in media and business. Whether it's designing advanced streaming systems, streamlining global workflows, or crafting better sales processes, Julian thrives on finding innovative ways to make things work better.

Before Peak Signal, Julian held product and implementation roles in a company owned by Liberty Global and, after AMC Networks acquired that company in 2014, at AMC Networks. He worked on the systems that prepare programmes and deliver them on television and on demand. He has also been a principal technical architect at Arqiva, and led the customer team for an OTT streaming platform. Earlier in his career he was a broadcast engineer at QVC, and worked on live sport and news for outside broadcast companies and a sports rights holder.

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Paula Mathews

Partner

Paula is a dynamic leader in product strategy and technical delivery, with a proven track record of driving innovation and engineering excellence. Over her extensive career, she has designed, built, and led industry-leading media solutions, driving complex broadcast and streaming initiatives from concept to execution.

At Peak Signal, Paula brings her expertise to a diverse range of customer projects, from defining metadata blueprints and optimizing supply chains to streamlining booking-to-billing processes, shaping go-to-market strategies, and enhancing service delivery for media and technology providers.

With expertise in vendor selection, technical delivery and business transformation, Paula ensures Peak Signal delivers strategic, high-impact solutions. Whether optimising business processes, defining international operating models or driving innovation, she provides the clarity, leadership, and execution needed to create lasting impact.

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Victoria Shepherd

Consultant

Victoria brings over 15 years of deep expertise across technical, operational, and customer-service focused roles within broadcast operations.

Most recently as Arqiva’s Head of Customer Experience, she led their Customer Experience, Service Excellence and Technical Pre Sales teams. Victoria specialises in strategic operational improvement and service design, driving measurable customer experience improvement action plans, leading comprehensive customer survey activity and analysis, and effectively managing senior stakeholders to ensure strategic delivery.

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Matthew Wright

Apprentice AI/ML Engineer

Matthew hopes to bring a new perspective to the world of broadcast media through the use of cutting edge machine learning and artificial intelligence to help drive meaningful change and data driven insights.

As an artificial intelligence apprentice Matthew is at the forefront of this new field focusing on data management and modelling in the rapidly evolving media landscape. He is currently focusing on helping to modernise how companies navigate and harness their data in an effort to future-proof the next generation of content supply chains.

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