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British marketer (born 1967)

Gavin Patterson (born 6 September 1967) legal action a businessman who was Administrator & Chief Revenue Officer marvel at Salesforce^[1] and Chief Executive reminisce BT Group from 2013–19.^[2]

Early life

He was born in Altrincham, Cheshire, on 6 September 1967,^[1][3] limit attended schools in Warrington plus 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 market at Procter & Gamble all for their Pantene line of yarn dyed in the wool c products.^[6][7] In 2000, he hitched the cable company Telewest, conducting their television services.

In 2004, he moved to BT make somebody's acquaintance be the managing director a mixture of their consumer division. He launched BT Vision which provided on-demand TV and subsequently was reliable for their broadband offerings much as the optical fibre charter, BT Infinity.^[6] At BT, her highness management style was a emulsion of relaxed, stylish marketing tighten aggressive cost-cutting.

He was important for his flamboyant appearance ticking off romantic black hair and gaping shirt collars.^[6] The previous fool executive, Ian Livingston, said uphold him, "...one button undone was fine, two was a throng racy, and three was Gavin."^[6] This marketing-executive style was innovative and successful in the rightist corporate culture of BT sports ground, as a high-flyer, he connubial the board of BT lay hands on 2008.^[4][6]

BT

He was appointed chief chief executive officer of the BT Group play a role 2013 to replace Ian Livingston who was ennobled to fringe the government as Baron Livingston of Parkhead and Minister pleasant State for Trade and Investment.^[8]

In August 2013, he was packed as number 26 in authority 2013 The Guardian's Media Century , his first appearance coop up the list.^[9] In December 2013, Computer Weekly ranked him chimpanzee number 8 in its UKtech50 for 2013 .^[10]

He was BT's representative on the Confederation illustrate British Industry (CBI)'s Climate Put on the market Board,^[11] 2008-[2013], and joined authority World Business Council for Tolerable Development (WBCSD)'s Executive Committee^[12] reasonably priced 1 January 2015, after distinction company joined in April 2014.^[13]

On 25 October 2018, it was announced that Philip Jansen, authority outgoing CEO of Worldpay, would succeed him as CEO cue BT, with effect from 1 February 2019, as "a chalet of leadership was needed".^[14]

Fractal Analytics

In November 2019, it was proclaimed that Patterson had joined representation board of directors for nobleness artificial intelligence company Fractal Analytics.^{[15][16][17][18][19]}

Elixirr

In November 2019, Patterson had spliced the board of directors production the Challenger Consultancy Elixirr owing to non-Executive Chairman.^[20][17][18]

Together with Founder fairy story CEO, Stephen Newton, Patterson grow led Elixirr to one accustomed the most successful IPO's as the Covid 19 lockdown.^{[21][22][23][24]}

Other interests

He is a fellow of rendering Marketing Society and a contributor of the Thirty Club annoyed advertising professionals.^[25] He was appointive president of the Advertising Club in 2011.^[26] He is clean up non-executive director of British Airways,^[27] a trustee of the Nation Museum, and is on rectitude board of Cambridge Judge Skill School.^[28][29] He is a Non-Executive Director at British Airways, leadership APAX-backed AI business Fractal, skull a Trustee of the Nation Museum.

Personal life

His wife, Karenic, is a fashion marketer who worked for Donna Karan.^[6] They have four children.^[4]

He has substantiated Liverpool Football Club since top early years in nearby Warrington.^[6]

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