Colin Bannon

BT Business, Chief Technology Officer

Colin is the CTO for BT Business, charged with delivering BT’s product technology strategy-design, customer solutions, supporting strategic business outcomes for BT’s Global Enterprise, Wholesale, SMB, Government, Defence, Health markets, providing service across 180 countries.

In addition to his 20 years in BT, Colin has had engineering leadership and Consulting Engineer roles in IBM Global Services, Lucent INS and Unisys. Colin is active in several technology advisory/standards boards, and a lecturer at Warwick University.

Colin is the architect of some of the largest customer network transformations in the world. Colin is leading BT’s journey to build a Global NaaS platform which BT calls ‘Global Fabric’ which is a fully digitalized, automated, API first platform that includes Internet, MPLS, Ethernet, Cloud interconnectivity, DC Interconnect, Mobile Interconnect, Data Sovereignty, DDos, Edge Compute that supports service insertion including SDWAN and SASE, SSE, SIP, Load Balancing, and Firewalls.