Our team

  • Leadership team
  • Board of Directors

Leadership

Olaf Swantee

Chief Executive Officer

Olaf heads up EE, the UK's most advanced digital communications company, which operates EE, T-Mobile and Orange in the UK. He was previously part of Orange France-Telecom’s executive board.

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Ralf Brandmeier

Chief Performance Officer

Ralf serves EE's business functions with market research, project management, value steering and customer insight, and co-ordinates EE's transformation and integration programmes.

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Marc Allera

Chief Sales Officer

Marc manages all sales activities across the company - retail, digital and customer base management - and the company’s relationship with indirect partners. He joined EE from Three UK in December 2011.

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Pippa Dunn

Chief Marketing Officer –
Consumer

Pippa is responsible for EE's consumer division: commercial targets, customer loyalty, product & device management and proposition development. She has been with Orange since 2003.

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Gerry McQuade

Chief Marketing Officer –
Non-Consumer Mobile

Gerry has managed EE's wholesale, B2B, home and business development areas since the 2010 birth
of Everything Everywhere. He was previously a founding member of Virgin Mobile.

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Steven Day

Chief of Brand
and Communications

Steven oversees the brand and comms strategy & delivery team across the business: advertising, public affairs and internal & external communications. He joined from Virgin Mobile in 2008.

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Jackie O'Leary

Chief Customer Officer

Jackie is responsible for customer operations, customer experience and engagement strategy. Prior to this she was vice president of customer services on the board of Orange.

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Francoise Clemes

Chief of HR

Francoise is charged with delivering an inspiring employee journey to make EE a great place to work for its teams. She joined the company in September 2011 from France Telecom Group.

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Stephen Harris

Chief of Staff

Stephen's key areas are strategy, legal & regulatory, and property & facilities, as well as the smooth running of the chief executive office. He originally joined Orange from Cable & Wireless in 2005.

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Neal Milsom

Chief Financial Officer

Neal manages EE's finances, including procurement and the supply chain; he's also on the company’s board of directors. Neal first joined Orange from the Unipart Group in 2001.

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Fotis Karonis

Chief Technology Officer

Fotis oversees the IT and network development strategy and implementation for EE. He joined Everything Everywhere from Romtelecom at the new company's formation in 2010.

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Board of Directors

Olaf Swantee

Chief Executive Officer

Olaf heads up EE, the UK's most advanced digital communications company, which operates EE, T-Mobile and Orange in the UK. He was previously part of Orange France-Telecom’s executive board.

Learn more about Olaf >

Neal Milsom

Chief Financial Officer

Neal manages EE's finances, including procurement and the supply chain; he's also on the company’s board of directors. Neal first joined Orange from the Unipart Group in 2001.

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Timotheus Hoettges

Board Member for Finance, Deutsche Telekom; Non-executive director, EE

Timotheus was the group board of management member responsible for the Deutsche Telekom T-Home unit from December 2006 until he became CFO.

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Gervais Pellissier

Deputy Chief Executive & Chief Financial Officer, France Telecom Group; Chairman, EE

Gervais joined the FT Group in October 2005 and later became chief financial officer. Prior to that he was managing director and deputy CEO of Bull SAS.

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Benoit Scheen

EVP Europe, France Telecom Group; Interim Non-Executive
Director, EE

Benoit joined the FT Group in September 2011, having been CEO of Mobistar in Belgium and held executive positions with IBM, Compaq, HP and Siemens-Nixdorf.

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Claudia Nemat

Board Member for Europe, Deutsche Telekom;
Non-Executive Director, EE

Claudia spent 17 years before joining Deutsche Telekom at McKinsey & Company, responsible for the high-tech sector in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

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