Andy MacLeod, Director Group Networks,
Vodafone

Andy is responsible for the architecture, design, vendor management and equipment selection for Vodafone’s network infrastructure and support systems worldwide. He joined the company in August 2007 from Eircom the PTT in the Republic of Ireland, where he held the position of Chief Operating Officer responsible for all aspects of wholesale markets, technology, operations and supply chain management for the company. He assumed this position in August 2005 following the purchase of the company by Babcock & Brown Capital.

Before this Andy was Chief Executive of the European, Middle East & Africa activities of MCI the US based provider of fixed telecommunications services to businesses. Andy left MCI when it was acquired by Verizon in February 2006 after seeing it through three years of recovery from the Worldcom bancruptcy.

Prior to MCI he was Chief Operating Officer of Cable & Wireless Global, leading all the network and IT technology and operational activities. He joined C&W in 1998 as CTO and Strategy Director of C&W Communications the UK arm of C&W Group.

Andy’s earlier career was with Nortel in a variety of General Management Sales, Marketing and Corporate Strategy roles across the world. Before that he was with Pirelli Cables in research and product development.

Andy holds a degree in Materials Science from Keble College, Oxford and an MBA from Warwick Business School. He is married with two children and lives in Winchester, UK.