EEDA - East of England Development Agency

Peter McCarthy-Ward

Board member

Peter is BT's regional director for the East of England.

He is responsible for ensuring BT is alert and responsive to the regional agenda and for maintaining good relationships with key regional opinion formers.
 
Peter joined BT in 1983 as marketing and product manager for residential apparatus. His responsibilities covered market analysis, product management, development and procurement for BT's range of cordless telephones, answering machines and accessories.

During the 1990s Peter held a range of roles centred on the development of UK regulatory policy, including leading the BT teams responding to regulatory initiatives such as accounting separation, universal service and  number portability.  Peter was BT's project director for the 1996 retail price control review.

From October 2000 until 2004 Peter was strategy director for BT's retail line of business, where he was responsible for development and communication of the BT retail strategy and for retail pricing. From 2004 to 2008 Peter was BT's director, equivalence, responsible for BT's response to its regulators strategic review and for developing and implementing the Undertakings which resulted. Peter retired from his full time role in BT in Autumn 2008, but remains BT’s Regional Director in the East of England.

He also supplies consultancy services to clients including Royal Mail and the Australian Government’s Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy. Peter lectures occasionally at University College, London.
 
Peter is a member of the CBI Regional Council for the East of England, the Regional Transition Board and also a member of EEDA's Audit Committee and of EEDA's digital partnership. 

He is a graduate of the INSEAD Senior Management Programme. He is married with two adult children

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