BT appoints new SEC for netwoks evelopment
25 Mar 2010
New Delhi, March 25, 2010: BT today named Clive Selley as the new CEO of BT Innovate and Design, the division of BT responsible for network and platform development together with long-term technology strategy and research.
Selley replaces Al-Noor Ramji who is leaving BT at the end of March to run the banking division of software company Misys plc. Ramji had spent six years with BT and helped bring IT into the mainstream and led the introduction of agile development techniques.
Selley, who will report into Ian Livingston, BT CEO, has substantial experience gained across the different parts of BT. He has played a key role in transforming BT's networks and platforms over the years and is currently president, portfolio and service design at BT Global Services. Selley will also become BT Group CIO.
Innovate and Design were formed in 2007 and combined last year in order to support BT's customer facing businesses. Approximately 17,000 people - including contractors - work in the division with staff located across the world. The division has responsibility for BT's laboratories at Adastral Park, near Ipswich, and also conducts research with leading universities across the globe.
As well as the laboratories at Adastral, BT has satellite cntres at Dalian, Pune, Dallas, Brussels, Shanghai, Bangalore and El-Segundo and Mountainview in California.