Hyperoptic hires Ex-Vodafone, BT and EE PR

Howard Jones has joined Hyperoptic as its Head of PR as the company works to build its leadership profile.

He joins from Vodafone UK, where he led the company’s Corporate, Consumer and Enterprise teams.

Prior to that, Jones served as Head of Technology PR at BT Consumer and was part of the EE PR team responsible for the regional rollout of the first 4G network back in 2012.

He said: “Growing will require us to build out our comms division and recruit like-minded partners ready to take on a brief that will shake up our market.”

Charles Davies, MD of ISP at Hyperoptic added: “Howard brings an ambition to drive industry change through intelligent and consumer-centred comms. We are ready to take our brand to the next stage.”