JP Rangaswami

Managing Director - BT Design

Originally an economist and financial journalist, JP Rangaswami has worked with technology in large multinationals for 27 years. Most recently, JP joined BT from Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein where he served as Global CIO and won CIO of the year in 2003 by Waters magazine.

He has a reputation for innovation and is highly regarded by his peers. He is thought provoking, sponsoring technology disruptions that reduce complexity, increase speed and empower customers. He is an advocate for community-based "opensource" development methods and practices and he embraces wholeheartedly Enterprise 2.0 social networking software. He sees this as the next battleground for control of freedom of information such as identity, presence and authentication.

JP is a fervent blogger. On Confused of Calcutta he posts daily insights and opinions inviting discussion. He is a regular speaker at industry events particularly on innovation and opensource. He was named CIO Innovator of the Year by the European Technology Forum in 2004. He is an Advisory Board member of CAL-IT and a Charter Member of TiE UK, along with memberships of the IoD, the ACM and the IEEE. He is a Fellow of the British Computer Society (BCS) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA). He is a also a Freeman of the Information Technologists Company (a London City Livery Company, also known as the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists).