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Interview: Ted Griggs of Ribbit
13 November 2009
Ted Griggs, the CEO of Ribbit, now owned by BT, has been made CTO of BT Voice
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California’s Silicon Valley is not the sort of place you’d expect a senior executive of a European telecoms incumbent to be based. But Ted Griggs is not the normal sort of person who gets to be appointed the CTO of a telecoms operator.
The appointment of Griggs to be CTO of BT Voice could be a significant move for the UK-based operator — a sign that it is a serious believer in the idea that infrastructure and services are ultimately different and that BT wants to be a bit different from the run-of-the-mill incumbents.
Griggs is founder and CEO of Ribbit, which calls itself “Silicon Valley’s first phone company” and is seen by some as a competitor to Google Voice, the search company’s venture — so far limited to the US — to provide people with a cloud-based phone service which will route calls to any number of separate...
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