Fatima has over 20 years’ experience in Telecommunications sector. Highly skilled senior manager with demonstrated leadership beyond her technology strength. Fatima brings a great blend of creativity & knowledge to solve complex problems. She led major BT transformation programmes Including Digital voice: A significant change for the industry & UK consumers which represents a move from an analogue to a digital, fibre led future.

Currently, she is leading the Ventures Businesses as CTIO B2B for BT, assisting the business with building new models and re-shaping business processes. Using Technology strategy, Innovation and Tech transformation across sectors; including healthcare, Media & TV, SME & Public Sector.

Fatima is passionate about the future of Technology and how it will shape our society. She believes that the fourth revolution is an opportunity to reset gender equality, social mobility and race. She believes that we at the Tech industry have the responsibility to shape the ethical development and deployment of AI technologies. AI is set to be deeply embedded into the fabric of society touching every aspect of people’s lives so we will have to ensure that the new Tech delivers benefits to industry and society as whole.

Fatima is an active promoter of diversity & inclusion, she has created a coaching and inspirational program for women managers in BT, extending the invitation to women managers in other industry sector, Finance, Insurance and Tech. this proved very successful, huge learning and insight exchange between candidates. The programme received support and funding from senior Executive to produce videos which were used as training material across the company.