Mr. Chris Bruce

Director of international sales and consulting services

BT Global Services

Chris is focussed on developing Mobility strategies for BT and for its international Telco clients across Asia, Middle East & Africa and the Americas. He is also Co-Chair of the Wireless Broadband Alliance and a mentor with the Cognicity Challenge for IoT Smart Cities Start-Ups www.cognicity.london.

Previously, Chris was CEO of BT Openzone, provider of the BT public Wi-Fi service, where he led the deployment of more than 5 million wi-fi hotspots. He also developed partnerships with mobile operators for offload services and with venue partners in the hospitality and travel sectors. Chris led the BT negotiations with Locog to provide public Wi-Fi for the London 2012 Olympics across 9 venues and public areas across the Olympic Park.

Chris has more than 25 years of international experience in the telecommunications industry in a range of general management, product, marketing and sales channel roles. Prior to BT, Chris held roles with Ericsson, Ascom and CASE Communications. Chris has been responsible for business growth in the international data communications, mobile, internet hosting, global voice and wireless broadband sectors.