The Board
A list of the members of the Board is set forth in the table below.
| Name | Age | Position |
|---|---|---|
| Pierre Danon | 51 | Executive Chairman |
| Con Scanlon | 54 | Vice Chairman |
| Rex Comb | 44 | Chief Executive Officer |
| Peter Cross | 39 | Chief Financial Officer |
| Cathal Magee | 54 | Managing Director, Retail Fixed Services |
| Peter O’Connell | 54 | Director, Strategy and Regulation |
| Larry Smith | 55 | Chief Executive of Meteor Mobile Communications |
| John Conroy | 48 | Non-executive director |
| Robert Topfer | 47 | Non-executive director |
| John Fanning | 35 | Non-executive director |
Pierre Danon has served as the executive chairman of eircom since August 2006. He was previously chief executive officer of Cap Gemini, and prior to that, chief executive officer at BT Retail. He was a senior vice president for three years at Xerox Corporation and held various management positions at Rank Xerox. He is currently a senior advisor to J.P. Morgan Securities Ltd.. Mr. Danon is also a board member of EMAP plc.
Con Scanlon has served as vice chairman of the board of eircom since August 2006. He has served as vice chairman of the board of directors of Valentia Telecommunications since November 2001, as vice chairman of the board of directors of eircom since March 2004 and as vice chairman of the board of directors of eircom Limited since November 2001. He is a former non-executive director and former chairman of the ESOT and has been general manager of the ESOT since July 2004. Mr. Scanlon has served as a director of a number of our group entities since 1998 and was secretary general of the Communications Workers Union until July 2004.
Rex Comb has served as chief executive officer of eircom since August 2006. Mr. Comb was group managing director of the Linfox Logistics business for nearly four years. Prior to his role at Linfox, Mr. Comb was the managing director of Mattel Australia Ltd.
Peter Cross was appointed Chief Financial Officer and to the board of eircom in July 2007. Peter joined eircom from BT Group, where he held a number of roles from June 2001, including Group Director of Corporate Finance and Chief Financial Officer of Openreach, the business unit responsible for delivering BT's local loop and backhaul products to all communications providers. He was also a trustee of the BT Pension Scheme. Peter previously worked in corporate finance with Morgan Stanley and with Barings. He qualified as Chartered Accountant with Arthur Andersen, after qualifying with a first class Bachelor of Commerce degree from University College, Dublin.
Cathal Magee has been managing director of eircom retail since January 2002 and has served on the board of directors of eircom since March 2004. Prior to this appointment he was managing director of the Fixed-Line Business, eircom Ireland, a position he held since the public flotation of the company in 1999. He has been a member of the executive board of eircom since he joined the company in March 1995 and also held the position of managing director, Business Transformation and HR director during that period. He is a director of the ESOT and a non-Executive Director of EBS Building Society and Voluntary Health Insurance Board (VHI). Prior to joining eircom, Mr. Magee worked for the National Australian Banking Group in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
Robert Topfer has served on the board of directors of eircom since August 2006. He joined Babcock & Brown in 2000 and has been an executive chairman of Babcock & Brown Capital Management Pty Limited since December 2004. He is head of Corporate Finance of Babcock & Brown Australia Pty Limited and co-ordinates Babcock & Brown's Corporate Principal Investment and Funds Management activities world-wide. Previously he served as a founding partner of Atanaskovic Hartnell and as a partner of Allen Allen & Hemseley.
John Fanning was appointed to the board of eircom on 18 August 2006. Mr. Fanning is an investment banker for Babcock & Brown Australia, and prior to that he was a partner at Ernst & Young Australia and a director for Ernst & Young Transaction Advisory Services Limited.
Larry Smith has worked for Meteor since February 2005. He was appointed as Chief Operations Officer responsible for Technical, IT and special major projects, his role later expanded to include Marketing, Customer Care and Sales. In January 2007 Mr Smith moved into the CEO role, responsible for P & L and the day to day operations of the company. Mr Smith spent 23 years working with U. S. telecommunications company BellSouth serving as CEO of BellSouth Colombia for more than four years, CEO of BellSouth Peru for more than 3 years and COO of Cellcom Israel in Tel Aviv for 2 years.
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