Phil Bull

Phil Bull joined BT in 1970 as an apprentice and was employed on transmission systems and electronic repair. In 1980 he graduated with a BSc Honours degree in electronic engineering, since when his career has spanned both research and development in areas including computer-aided engineering, decision support, intelligent systems for network design and internet technologies.

In 1999 he was awarded the BT Gold Medal for research and development work that led to the deployment of an intelligent network design and bid-support system.

Phil is head of the Customer Networks Research group, whose work currently includes intelligent advisors and future home networks.