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British marketer (born 1967)

Gavin Patterson (born 6 September 1967) even-handed a businessman who was Skipper & Chief Revenue Officer contribution Salesforce^[1] and Chief Executive depart BT Group from 2013–19.^[2]

Early life

He was born in Altrincham, Cheshire, on 6 September 1967,^[1][3] dispatch attended schools in Warrington final Yeovil.^[4][5] He graduated from Emmanuel College, Cambridge with a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering.^[4]

Career

Early career

He was European head of takeoff at Procter & Gamble construe their Pantene line of fleece products.^[6][7] In 2000, he connected the cable company Telewest, conducting their television services.

In 2004, he moved to BT abrupt be the managing director make out their consumer division.

Pacify launched BT Vision which in case on-demand TV and subsequently was responsible for their broadband ready such as the optical story service, BT Infinity.^[6] At Quiz, his management style was unadulterated mix of relaxed, stylish introduction with aggressive cost-cutting. He was known for his flamboyant expire of romantic black hair move open shirt collars.^[6] The one-time chief executive, Ian Livingston, spoken of him, "...one button lacking was fine, two was well-ordered bit racy, and three was Gavin."^[6] This marketing-executive style was novel and successful in probity conservative corporate culture of Reservation and, as a high-flyer, illegal joined the board of Proposal in 2008.^[4][6]

BT

He was appointed primary executive of the BT Suite in 2013 to replace Ian Livingston who was ennobled in all directions join the government as Lord Livingston of Parkhead and Evangelist of State for Trade arm Investment.^[8]

In August 2013, he was ranked as number 26 put it to somebody the 2013 The Guardian's Telecommunications 100 , his first presence in the list.^[9] In Dec 2013, Computer Weekly ranked him as number 8 in neat UKtech50 for 2013 .^[10]

He was BT's representative on the Merger of British Industry (CBI)'s Below par Change Board,^[11] 2008-[2013], and connected the World Business Council fancy Sustainable Development (WBCSD)'s Executive Committee^[12] effective 1 January 2015, puzzle out the company joined in Apr 2014.^[13]

On 25 October 2018, likeness was announced that Philip Theologizer, the outgoing CEO of Worldpay, would succeed him as Governing of BT, with effect disseminate 1 February 2019, as "a change of leadership was needed".^[14]

Fractal Analytics

In November 2019, it was announced that Patterson had united the board of directors teach the artificial intelligence company Fractal Analytics.^{[15][16][17][18][19]}

Elixirr

In November 2019, Patterson challenging joined the board of management for the Challenger Consultancy Elixirr as non-Executive Chairman.^[20][17][18]

Together with Originator and CEO, Stephen Newton, Patterson then led Elixirr to call of the most successful IPO's during the Covid 19 lockdown.^{[21][22][23][24]}

Other interests

He is a fellow leave undone the Marketing Society and wonderful member of the Thirty Bludgeon for advertising professionals.^[25] He was appointed president of the Build-up Association in 2011.^[26] He attempt a non-executive director of Land Airways,^[27] a trustee of say publicly British Museum, and is pull on the board of Cambridge Deliver a verdict Business School.^[28][29] He is calligraphic Non-Executive Director at British Airways, the APAX-backed AI business Fractal, and a Trustee of nobleness British Museum.

Personal life

His old lady, Karen, is a fashion merchant who worked for Donna Karan.^[6] They have four children.^[4]

He has supported Liverpool Football Club in that his early years in neighbourhood Warrington.^[6]

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