Fibre Faces

Ian Finlay has been appointed Head of Sales at Alncom and will work with Community Engagement manager John Parker to increase the FTTP customer base in the north east and Scottish Borders.

FullFibre has appointed Chris Carrington as the new Area General Manager for the Midlands West region, covering the Shropshire build, including the likes of Shrewsbury and Oswestry.

Freedom Fibre has appointed Lee Sutch to oversee the onboarding of its first business customers to full fibre.

Lincolnshire-based altnet LightSpeed Broadband, has appointed Brett Shepherd as its new CEO.

FullFibre has made two key appointments, hiring Adele Whild as Director of Delivery and Ross Duke as CTO.

Paul Hellings has been named CEO at Jurassic Fibre as Michael Maltby moves onto the Board in a Non-Executive Director role.

Trenches Law has bolstered its wayleave expertise with the double hire of Phill Stockdale-Woodhead as Learning and Development Specialist and Kelly Hope as Wayleave Officer.

TalkTalk CEO Tristia Harrison has been awarded an honorary degree from the University of Salford in recognition of her contribution to enhancing digital skills in the community and for spearheading initiatives that encourage women to work in the technology sector.  

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

Digital Secretary Nadine Dorries has chosen Simon Blagden CBE to Chair Building Digital UK (BDUK), placing him at the help of Project Gigabit, backed with £5bn to connect hard-to-reach areas as well as the £1bn Shared Rural Network which will dial up 4G phone signal rural areas.