{"id":949594,"date":"2025-07-25T07:48:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T02:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=949594"},"modified":"2025-07-25T08:01:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T02:31:11","slug":"bt-names-industry-veteran-patricia-cobian-as-first-female-cfo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/25\/bt-names-industry-veteran-patricia-cobian-as-first-female-cfo\/","title":{"rendered":"BT names industry veteran Patricia Cobian as first female CFO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BT Group, Britain&#8217;s largest broadband and mobile provider, named Patricia Cobian, currently with rival Virgin Media O2, as its first female chief financial officer on Thursday, succeeding long-time finance chief Simon Lowth. <\/p>\n<p>The change comes more than a year after CEO Allison Kirkby took the helm at BT amid a transformative plan set in motion by her predecessor Philip Jansen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BT Group, Britain&#8217;s largest broadband and mobile provider, named Patricia Cobian, currently with rival Virgin Media O2, as its first female chief financial officer on Thursday, succeeding long-time finance chief Simon Lowth. The change comes more than a year after CEO Allison Kirkby took the helm at BT amid a transformative plan set in motion by her predecessor Philip Jansen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-949594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=949594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}