Gavin Patterson is the president and chief revenue officer of Salesforce.com, Inc., leading the CRM company’s global sales organization. He previously served as Chief Executive, BT from 2013-19.<\/p>\n
During his tenure, Patterson completed the UK rollout of the superfast fibre and started the deployment ultrafast fibre. He led the \u00a315billion acquisition of EE, launched BT Sport, expanded BT\u2019s cyber security practice and championed BT\u2019s social purpose agenda. He joined BT in 2004 as MD Consumer and joined the board as CEO BT Retail in 2008. Prior to BT, he spent four years at Virgin Media and nine years at Procter & Gamble.<\/p>\n
Patterson is a Non-Executive Director at British Airways plc and a Trustee of the British Museum. He graduated from Cambridge University with an MEng in Chemical Engineering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"