Gavin Patterson

Gavin joined Elixirr as Chairman in 2019, formerly serving as Chief Executive Officer of BT Group from 2013. During his tenure at BT, he completed the UK rollout of the superfast fibre and started the deployment of ultrafast fibre. He led the £15 billion acquisition of EE, launched BT Sport, expanded BT’s cyber security practice and championed BT’s social purpose agenda. He joined BT in 2004 as Managing Director Consumer and joined the Board as CEO BT Retail in 2008. Prior to BT, he spent four years at Virgin Media and nine years at Procter & Gamble.

Most recently, he served as President and Chief Strategy Officer of Salesforce, stepping down in January 2023. Before this his previous Salesforce roles included Chairman of EMEA, as well as Chief Revenue Officer.

Gavin is currently a Non-Executive Director at several companies, including the APAX-backed AI firm Fractal, as well as Wix, Octopus Energy, X3T, Maly, Kraken, Beamery, Kahoot! and the Ocado Group.

He holds a Master of Engineering in Chemical Engineering from Cambridge University.