Jean Marc Frangos

Senior VP, Technology and Innovation, BT Group

Jean-Marc Frangos is SVP Technology and Innovation reporting to the  BT Group CTO. BT's Group CTO office sits above all  BT's lines of business. It has been instrumental in shaping  the BT 21c program, and owns innovation for the BT group.  

Jean-Marc himself is responsible for sourcing BT's external  innovation in the United States, Asia, and Europe. Based in  Silicon Valley, and in association with leading Venture Capital firms and entrepreneurs, Jean-Marc identifies disruptive technologies  and innovative service opportunities, and establishes the technical and commercial links with BT's Research and Operational divisions.  

Jean-Marc is also responsible for a number of group wide teams which introduce or support innovations, internal and external, into BT's technology and service road maps. For instance, Jean-Marc runs a service prototyping team, an internal innovation consultancy team, a disruptive ideas identification process, and the internal ideas management structure.

  Jean-Marc Frangos is originally from France, but is now based  in California with his family, and participates on a number of venture capital  and investment review groups.