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Liv Garfield to leave BT

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British Telecom (BT) has said that Liv Garfield is leaving the company to join FTSE 100 water company Severn Trent as CEO. She will take up the role in spring 2014 following the retirement of Tony Wray

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The company said that Liv's successor will be announced by BT in due course of time.

Liv Garfield was responsible for the £2.5bn rollout of super fast fiber broadband as its CEO boss of Openreach, the company mentioned in its statement.

Garfield said, "BT has been a terrific employer, giving me lots of room to grow and develop my business skills. It has been a tough decision but I leave Openreach in fantastic shape and have every confidence it will continue to thrive."

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"Ours is one of the fastest fiber broadband deployments anywhere in the world and the UK now leads our major European counterparts in terms of superfast broadband speed and availability. That is a fantastic achievement. Liv, her management team and Openreach's hard working engineers should be incredibly proud," said Gavin Patterson, CEO, BT Group.

"Since Liv assumed the Openreach position in April 2011, the availability of fiber over BT's network has risen from around 4m premises to more than 17m. Meanwhile, the number of customers adopting fiber has increased steadily from just over 100k in April 2011 to more than 2m subscribers today," the company said in it statement.

As CEO of Openreach -She played a pivotal role in building the business case for BT's commercial fiber investment in her previous role as BT's group strategy director.

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