News 2005
Virgin Mobile appoints new Finance Director
07/11/2005
London – 7 November 2005: Virgin Mobile Telecoms Ltd (“Virgin Mobile”) has strengthened its management team with the appointment of Mark Burrows as Finance Director.
Mark, 35, will take responsibility for day-to-day financial operations and will report to Chief Financial Officer Alan Gow, who will spend an increasing proportion of his time on strategy and investor relations.
Mark joins Virgin Mobile from BSkyB, where as Head of Sky Sports Finance he advised on the financial aspects of sports rights acquisitions and pay per view events. He also represented Sky as a director of both the Manchester United TV and Chelsea Digital Media (Chelsea TV) joint ventures. Prior to this Mark was Head of Technology Finance and Group Capital Expenditure at the company.
Mark previously worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers as an Assistant Manager in the Corporate Recovery and Corporate Finance unit, where he helped to restructure the finance department of a failing independent television and radio production company. He also spent six months on secondment to the then Price Waterhouse training division, teaching an induction course to graduate recruits. Mark began his career with three years on the Barclays Bank trainee manager scheme before moving to PricewaterhouseCoopers in an audit role.
He qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1996 and has a first class degree in Economics and Accountancy from Cardiff University.
Alan Gow, Virgin Mobile’s Chief Financial Officer, said: “Mark’s experience of managing budgets and leading teams in a broad range of in-house and consultancy finance roles will prove great assets to Virgin Mobile and we are delighted that he will be joining us.”
For further information contact:
| Virgin Mobile | Media |
| Steven Day, Corporate Affairs Director | |
| +44 (0)7931 777777 or | |
| +44 (0)20 7484 4300 | |
| Alison Bonny, Head of Public Relations | |
| +44 (0)7802 430276 or | |
| +44 (0)20 7484 4300 | |
| Analysts/Investors | |
| Mike Thomas, Head of Corporate Finance and Investor Relations | |
| +44 (0)7941 045738 or | |
| +44 (0)20 7484 4300 | |
| Finsbury | James Murgatroyd |
| Don Hunter | |
| +44 (0)20 7251 3801 |
About Virgin Mobile:
Virgin Mobile Holdings (UK) plc, the UK's largest mobile virtual network operator, is majority owned by Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Group and uses T-Mobile's network. Since its launch in November 1999, Virgin Mobile has attracted more than 5 million customers.
In the UK, Virgin Mobile phones are available direct on 0845 6000 600; on the web at www.virginmobile.com or on the High Street at approximately 5,000 retail outlets.
Virgin Mobile employs approximately 1,400 staff at three sites, Trowbridge, London and Daventry, and has an outsourced customer service centre operated by approximately 200 staff in Middlesbrough.
