Jit Patel
Head of IIP Messaging, O2

Married with 4 children and living in Ealing, London.
Started working life as an Account Manager for mechanising company specialising serving the automotive industry and got to drive some pretty cool cars before my calling to technology. I started real work at BT as Software Engineer and progressed through to Project Management and went on to hold positions for amongst others Logica where I spent time travailing and working throughout Europe in various roles from Bid Manager, Trouble Shooter, through to Programme Management. I've been at O2 and formerly Genie for about 7 years predominantly in the messaging space. My childhood fascination with Lego has stood me in good stead I still love building stuff but it just got a bit more expensive and complicated over the years!