CIO Al-Noor Ramji quits BT Design to join Misys

Al-Noor Ramji had been working for BT for six years

BT Design chief information officer (CIO) Al-Noor Ramji has joined financial services software firm Misys after a six-year stint at the telecoms giant.

Ramji was a non-executive director at the finance software specialist and is now taking over from Guy Warren – who is moving to the FTSE Group as chief operating officer – as head of the banking division at Misys.

During his time at BT, Ramji has driven "significant change" and has been a keen proponent of agile software development.

Last month, Ramji told Computing that one of the biggest challenges of his job was managing cultural change within an industry [telecoms] that was moving rapidly from hardware to software managed networks.

“The network guys are going to have to face up to the fact that if they don’t start understanding software they’re going to be out of a job. But as a software guy in charge of replacing network hardware, I guess that for the time being, my job’s pretty safe,” he said.

When Ramji leaves later this week, he will be replaced by Clive Selley, who will be the new chief executive of BT Innovate and Design as well as the group's CIO, reporting into BT chief executive Ian Livingston.

Selley has worked at BT for more than 20 years across a number of roles. In his current role as the president of portfolio and service design at BT Global Services, he is responsible for transforming BT's network infrastructure and for next-generation product development in areas such as virtual datacentres.

"My job is to ensure that BT is quicker in developing new services and getting them to market, that development costs are reduced and, above all, that the customer experience is constantly improved," said Selley.

"BT is increasingly becoming a software company and I look forward to helping [the company] embrace the cloud era,” he said.