Mike Carr

Director of Research and Venturing, British Telecom

As Director Research & Venturing, Mr. Carr is responsible for BT’s world-leading research andcommercial exploitation unit, including Patent-licensing and Corporate Venturing activities. Mr. Carr joined BTas a Technician Apprentice in 1972. He has a First Class Honours degree in Communication Engineering and joined the Visual Communication Research Division at BTLabs in 1980. During his 15 years with BT’s labs his career has focused on the research, development, and practical designof real-time audio/visual and multimedia communications systems. He has several patents to his name in the fieldof video compression, and is the holder of two prestigious BT awards; the Martlesham Medal for R&D (1992) and the BT Gold Medal (1994) for leading multimedia product developments. From 1994 Mr. Carr was responsible for driving BT’s company-wide technology acquisition strategy and from 1999he was based in Silicon Valley, California, USA where he established BT’s US Technology Office and Corporate Venturing activity. He returned to the UK in 2001 to take on his current post of leading BT’s Research & Venturing activity.