NETS-International Group has appointed Graham Sargood as the newest Board Advisor to bring more than 30 years of experience to help with the company’s forward corporate strategy.
Thu, 28/11/2024 - 14:04
Wildanet has strengthened its team with a trio of strategic appointments as it steps up the deployment of its new gigabit enabled full fibre network.
Seasoned telecoms and tech industry Simon Hughes joined the business in November as its new Chief Commercial Officer, bringing in-depth experience working across businesses including Microsoft, BT, BP and scale-up SMEs in energy, cleantech and telecoms.
Hughes spent seven years in leadership roles for Microsoft in the USA, UK and Europe and 10 years with smart energy tech pioneer Green Energy Options (geo).
He joins Wildanet from County Broadband, where he was Chief Commercial Officer.
Alastair Woods was also recently appointed as Wildanet’s new Chief Operating Officer, previously leading large organisations and the delivery of complex capital investment programmes, including more than a decade in senior leadership roles with Openreach and BT Group.
Most recently, this included being the director responsible for leading Openreach’s FTTP build programme across the south west, south east and London.
Woods will play a key role in supporting the Wildnet’s continued roll-out of its full fibre network across Cornwall, the Isles of Scilly and Devon.
Jai Madhvani has also joined Wildanet to take up the role of Chief Financial Officer.
Madhvani is a qualified chartered accountant with a 20-year career in finance spanning investment banking corporate finance, and most recently Finance Director and Group CFO roles.
The new appointments bring further heavy-weight industry experience and strategic strength to the existing team at the helm of Wildanet, led by CEO Helen Wylde-Archibald.
Justin Clark, Wildanet’s Chief Strategy & Technology Officer and Deputy CEO leads the development and delivery of the company strategy and strategic partnering arrangements, including the recent partnership with Nokia.
Clark is also responsible for the company’s government programme management, compliance, systems development, network & IT teams.
Julie-anne Sunderland, a Chartered FCIPD and Wildanet’s Chief People Officer, is also responsible for the company’s ESG agenda, which has been pivotal in Wildanet becoming a certified B Corp company.
Sunderland will be responsible for Wildanet’s Training Academy and apprenticeship programme in partnership with Truro and Penwith College.
Helen Wylde-Archibald, Wildanet CEO, said: “Simon, Alastair and Jai will play key roles working with the Board and the wider Wildanet team as we continue our work to bring full fibre broadband to more communities across the region, with support from Project Gigabit, the UK government’s rollout of reliable broadband across the UK.”
