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People, November 12 2009

12 November 2009

BT appoints Ribbit CEO Ted Griggs to be CTO of BT Voice, as Deutsche Telekom makes Olivier Baujard its CTO

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Ted Griggs, the CEO of Ribbit, now owned by BT, has been made CTO of BT Voice. Griggs, based in Silicon Valley, has founded at least five companies: he sold Junction to Cisco and Internet Gaming Zone to Microsoft. He set up softswitch maker Syndeo in1999 and ran it until 2003. He helped to found Ribbit — seen by some as a competitor to Google Voice — in 2006 and BT bought it for $105 million in 2008. Ribbit calls itself “Silicon Valley’s first phone company”. According to BT, “Ribbit has now been fully integrated into BT and therefore it makes sense for Ribbit...






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