Bas Burger

Bas Burger (born 1970) is a Dutch business executive known for his work in the international telecom industry. Currently CEO, Business, BT, he is a contributor to the World Economic Forum and is on the Committee for Economic Development. Burger attended Hogeschool Utrecht in the Netherlands, graduating with a BBA.

Career In the early 1990s Burger served as a sales manager at the computer security company Fifth Generation Systems in the United Kingdom, also serving as the company's marketing manager for Europe. He began working with the telecom company PTT Telecom in 1994. His responsibilities as executive vice president Burger started the position on June 1, 2008, replacing Michel De Coster.

BT appointed him their president of global commerce, Global Services, in 2011, adding the Global Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) and the Global Pharmaceutical and Chemical industry sectors in 2013. Bas also led BT's operations across Europe, the Middle-East, Africa and Latin America in 2012–2013.

In 2013, he was appointed president of BT in the Americas, focusing on multinational customers in North America, including TD Bank and Unilever. Burger remained president of the BT Americas unit until 2017.

Media presence Burger has made periodic appearances in the media, often to speak on telecom-related topics or to represent BT. In 2013 he was interviewed on PBS about cloud computing and his work with BTl . and in 2014 he met with government officials in Washington, D.C. to "ask for regulation of special access including Metro Ethernet... to end the negative effects of the effective monopoly held by AT&T and Verizon in the U.S." Burger contended in interviews around that time that both AT&T and Verizon were "manipulating pricing to discourage the move to Ethernet for most companies," In 2015, Burger stated to the Financial Times that BT was being overcharged by Verizon and AT&T for access to their networks, arguing that American monopoly laws were insufficient to guarantee fair market competition among telecom and landline companies.

Personal life Burger and his family moved from Southlake, Texas to the UK in 2017.