Liv Garfield has announced plans to step down as CEO of British incumbent BT’s local access network business Openreach next spring.
She will be joining local water utility Severn Trent, becoming one of just four female CEOs in the FTSE 100.
BT said…
Liv Garfield has announced plans to step down as CEO of British incumbent BT’s local access network business Openreach next spring.
She will be joining local water utility Severn Trent, becoming one of just four female CEOs in the FTSE 100.
BT said it will announce a successor “in due course”.
Liv headed the telco’s £2.5bn commercial rollout of fibre broadband and, since taking the helm in April 2011, has seen the availability of its fibre network rise from around four million premises to more than 17 million.
“It is a huge wrench to leave Openreach but I feel the time is now right to take on a fresh challenge,” she said.
“Our commercial programme to bring fibre broadband to two thirds of UK premises is almost complete, whilst BT’s public sector broadband partnerships are making good progress.”
