JP Rangaswami, BT Global CIO
Position: 48 Last year: Not ranked
Why? For vision and innovation rarely seen in CIOs
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Regarded as something of a maverick and an innovator, JP Rangaswami is an outspoken advocate of open source and using emerging and disruptive technologies to improve information sharing, education and collaboration. He is also a keen blogger on his own Confused of Calcutta website
Rangaswami actually started his career as a financial journalist in his home city of Calcutta. He only switched to IT when he first moved to the UK in 1987, writing technical manuals.
Rangaswami later joined the investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort as a Y2K consultant and rose through the ranks to become CIO in 2001. During his time at the bank he championed open source and wiki-style collaboration and communication tools for the bank's staff.
Now, as CIO of BT's global IT services business, Rangaswami sits on the Global Services executive committee, BT's One IT committee and the BT Group IT board, where his energy and vision will be crucial in helping transform the telecoms provider into a true global IT services player.
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JP Rangaswami, managing director of BT Design, says: "The company of tomorrow won't be worrying about using Facebook. The more things change the more they stay the same? Maybe not. Mark Kobayashi-Hillary looks at how globalisation and other forces...
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Previously the CIO of an investment bank, JP Rangaswami is now MD of innovation and strategy at BT Design, the telco's group IT design and delivery unit, which works with BT Operate to bring software products to customers over BT's 21CN next...
BT's managing director of service design, JP Rangaswami, said: "Silicon Valley is emerging as a hotbed of telecommunications innovation. BT has bought internet-telephony company Ribbit, in a move that will bring the communications giant up against...
From Paul Coby at 11 and Bill Maguire at 25 - airline CIOs at BA and Virgin America respectively - to Rorie Devine at 26 over at Betfair and even the BBC's Ashley Highfield at 5 and BT's JP Rangaswami at 48 - two whose time is also spent providing...
From Paul Coby at 11 and Bill Maguire at 25 - airline CIOs at BA and Virgin America respectively - to Rorie Devine at 26 over at Betfair and even the BBC's Ashley Highfield at 5 and BT's JP Rangaswami at 48 - two whose time is also spent providing...
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