Peter Ingram is Managing Director of Touchstone Consulting Limited, providing strategic consulting in telecommunications, media and technology.Peter was formerly Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Ofcom, which is the regulator and competition authority for the UK's converged communications industry, with responsibilities covering television, radio, telecommunications, and the management of the radio spectrum.Peter's responsibility as CTO was to ensure that Ofcom remained at the forefront of understanding the impact of technology developments on the communications industry that Ofcom regulates. He played a leading role in a number of Ofcom's strategic reviews of telecommunications, broadcasting, and the radio spectrum: in particular, Ofcom's Strategic Review of Telecommunications which led to the functional separation of BT Openreach, and Ofcom's strategy for Next Generation Access (NGA)/Superfast Broadband.Reporting to the Ofcom CEO, Peter was a member of Ofcom's Executive Committee and Policy Executive, Chairman of Ofcom's Operations Board, and Group Head of the Technology & Spectrum Operations (T&SO) group, which comprised Ofcom's Information Systems, Central Operations and Field Operations teams. Peter was executive sponsor of Ofcom's Unify project - a major IS/business change programme, and of Ofcom's Footprint project, which reduced carbon dioxide emissions from Ofcom's operations and obtained certification against the Carbon Trust Standard. Peter also serves as an employer-nominated Trustee Director of the Ofcom Defined Benefit Pension Plan.In his previous role, Peter was Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at BT Retail, part of British Telecommunications plc. Peter had a long and varied career at BT. In his last two years at BT, he played a decisive role in the early-stage development of new revenue-generating services enabled by new technology, and led the development of BT's strategy for fixed/mobile convergence.Specialties: Peter is a European Engineer (Eur Ing), a Chartered Engineer (CEng), and a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering & Technology (FIET). Peter obtained a first-class honours degree in Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Essex (1977), and has attended an advanced business management programme at INSEAD in Paris (1999), and a corporate finance programme at the London Business School (2002).Peter has a full Developed Vetting (DV) security clearance.