Digicel Group Directors
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Colm Delves, Group Chief Executive Officer and Board Director Colm joined Digicel in May 2004 in the role of Group Chief Financial Officer before taking up his current role as Group Chief Executive Officer in June 2005. When he joined the company, Digicel was active in eight markets in the Caribbean having launched its first operation in Jamaica in 2001. Since then, Colm has overseen a fourfold increase in the number of markets Digicel serves and has been instrumental in taking the Digicel brand of best value, best service and best network mobile communications across the Caribbean and Central America. With the addition of six markets in the Pacific to the portfolio, Digicel Group now spans 32 markets worldwide and is proud to serve 11 million customers worldwide. Prior to his role in Digicel, Colm provided consultancy services to a number of companies, including O’Brien Cellular Ltd., owned by Denis O’Brien. From September 1993 to October 2003, Colm held the position of Chief Financial Officer of Hibernia Foods plc, a Nasdaq-quoted company in the food manufacturing industry. Colm qualified as a chartered accountant with KPMG Dublin and is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland. He holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting and finance from Dublin City University and is based with his family in Kingston, Jamaica. |
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Lawrence Hickey, Chief Financial Officer Lawrence
Hickey was appointed Chief Financial Officer for Digicel Group in February 2006
following his three year tenure as Financial Director of Digicel Jamaica since
August 2003. Lawrence joined Digicel in December 2002 as Financial Controller. Prior to joining Digicel, Lawrence was the Finance Manager with Esat BT, one of Ireland’s leading telecommunications service providers, where he was responsible for all financial management and financial reporting requirements of the Group. Lawrence also played a pivotal role in the consolidation of the company’s business and consumer divisions following the sale of the company to British Telecom. Lawrence has over eleven years of auditing, financial control and management experience with a number of successful corporate companies. He graduated from University of Limerick, Ireland in 1994 with a Bachelors Degree in Business Studies. Lawrence qualified as a Chartered Accountant with KPMG where he worked on a wide range of audits and secondments. Post qualification, Lawrence joined Grafton Group Plc, an Irish-based publicly quoted company where he held the position of Group Management Accountant. Lawrence is based in Kingston, Jamaica.
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Kevin White, Group Chief Operating Officer Kevin White’s
principal focus is to propel growth across established and new markets through
the Digicel style of speed to market and customer experience. Appointed as Chief Executive Officer for Digicel Eastern Caribbean in 2005 and later also as Chief Executive Officer of Digicel Trinidad & Tobago, Kevin’s proven track record of bringing companies to market leadership is demonstrated in our businesses in St. Lucia, Grenada and St. Vincent & the Grenadines which continue to flourish today. Kevin was also instrumental in the expansion of Digicel to Anguilla, St Kitts & Nevis, Antigua & Barbuda and Dominica – operations acquired through Digicel’s acquisition of Cingular Wireless’ Caribbean and Bermuda operations. He has a wealth of experience in all areas of telecommunications such as Operations Management, Commercial and Products Management, Sales and Marketing Management with such companies as ESAT Telecom in Ireland and World Com and Mercury in the UK. Kevin is based in Kingston, Jamaica. |
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Brian Finn, Group Commercial Director As Group Commercial
Director, Brian Finn is responsible for driving Digicel’s commercial objectives
across the business to ensure we deliver excellent customer service and great
value coupled with a pioneering brand and aggressive revenue generation.
Brian has
overall responsibility for advertising, brand development and communications,
promotions and events management, public relations, pricing and research,
products development and sponsorship.
Prior to
this role, Brian was Commercial Director for Digicel Trinidad & Tobago
where he was responsible for all aspects of the commercial strategy.
Since
joining Digicel in 2005, Brian has worked in several roles including General
Manager for the then, newly launched markets of St Kitts & Nevis and
Anguilla. In his current role, Brian is responsible for driving the commercial
objectives of the business across Digicel, to serve our customers and generate
revenue, while ensuring the development of a pioneering brand.
Brian has
a wealth of commercial experience having previously held senior management
positions in Hewlett Packard, eircom PLC & Sigma Telecom.
Brian is based in Kingston, Jamaica.
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Mario Assaad, Group Chief Technology Officer Mario
Assaad joined Digicel Group in January 2005 as Chief Technology Officer. This
role aims to bring coherence in the technical and IT approach, innovative
telco-grade services and solutions to the end-user and efficient applications
to internal clients in turn optimizing time and costs and raising revenues.
Mario and
his team are focused on continuing to support the Digicel key style of customer
experience. His responsibility is to provide across all the Digicel operations,
cost efficient and customer-focused network and technology solutions that will
drive the competitive advantage of our
superior core product – our network. He also manages Group Carrier Services,
Roaming and Product Delivery.
Mario has
been in the Caribbean region for almost five years and joined Digicel from his
previous position as Technical Director for Orange in the Dominican Republic.
Prior to
that, he was involved in the launch and support of GSM and fixed operators in
the Lebanon. Mario has a Masters in Engineering from the “Ecole Superieure Des
Ingenieurs De Beyrouth”.
Mario is based in Kingston, Jamaica. |
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Ken Mason, Group Business Development Director Ken Mason
joined Digicel in December 2004 as Group Business Development Director. His
primary objective is to identify opportunities for Digicel to continue to
expand its operations across our target markets.
Ken was
formerly with Pario Solutions (The Lewis Group), a major Caribbean telecom
engineering solutions provider, where he served as Group Vice President -
Marketing and Corporate Affairs.
Prior to
Pario, he was actively involved in Caribbean/North American economic
development and corporate and government consulting. Ken is a graduate of Pace
University, New York where he majored in Accounting, Finance and International
Business.
Ken is based in Kingston, Jamaica. |
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Jan Tjernell, Group General Counsel Jan Tjernell has overall responsibility for the legal and regulatory strategies for the Digicel Group. He was appointed to the position in March 2007. Previously Jan worked with Tele2-group, the largest non-incumbent pan-European operator. He joined that organization in 1994 with his most recent position there giving him overall responsibility for legal and regulatory affairs. Prior to that, he held various legal and regulatory roles within that same organization. Jan holds a Master of Law degree from the University of Stockholm. Jan is based in Kingston, Jamaica.
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Pat Casey - Group Human Resources Director Pat Casey – Group Human Resources Director From recruitment and talent management to change and culture programmes, Pat’s goal is to have each and every person in the company understanding and living the Digicel Way. This means focusing on continuing to provide great service and striving constantly to do things in a different way to continue to contribute to the success of Digicel and it’s employees. Pat is a graduate of Human Resources & Business from Limerick University, Ireland and is based in Kingston, Jamaica. |
