Gavin Patterson

CEO, BT Group plc

CEO at BT since 2013, Gavin Patterson has taken significant risks during his period of leadership, challenging Sky with big-money deals for live-broadcast football rights including a mammoth sum paid to poach the Champions League. The group has started to reap the rewards, however, with its broadband users now up to 7.8 million, while its mobile telecoms business is prospering after a £12.5 billion takeover of EE. Patterson joined BT in 2004 as managing director of its consumer division, and was responsible for launching BT Vision. Born in Altrincham, he studied chemical engineering at Cambridge and began his career at Procter and Gamble before moving to Telewest (now Virgin Media). Patterson now awaits an all-important Ofcom decision on whether BT subsidiary Openreach should become a separate company.

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