Neil Rogers

Managing Director 21CN BT Group

Neil Rogers became Chief Procurement Officer for BT in September 2007.  Before this he was Managing Director for 21CN where he was responsible for running one of the largest programmes of its type anywhere in the world which will impact every aspect of BT’s business over the next five years. As Managing Director his key responsibilities were to draw together the various work streams of the programme, to ensure customer and shareholder benefits.
 
Prior to this, Neil was President of Global Business Management and had responsibility for growing BT’s 100 largest global customers’ accounts.  Neil has worked for BT in the international sector for almost fifteen years with one of his roles being to increase the growth of the BT’s Solutions business from £1bn to £3bn over five years. He also led on BT’s largest international deal, the $3bn network outsourcing deal for Reuters, along with the acquisition of Radianz the financial services extranet company.

Earlier in his career, Neil was Director, Global Business Markets where he managed the transfer of 2,500 people and several million pounds worth of assets into the Concert Joint Venture with AT&T.

Prior to this  Neil was General Manager of the Global Industry Sector, preceded by three years as BT’s European Sales Manager based in Paris during the time of the European market liberalisation.  Prior to that, he developed and ran the first “Other Licensed Operators” sales channel in BT’s history.

Before joining BT in 1990, he worked in the Middle East in government communications contracting for Plessey in sales and marketing roles.