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Guy Laurence
Jonathan Guy Laurence (born 23 November 1961) is an English businessman, who is currently the Chief Executive of Premier League club Chelsea. He has previously served as Chief Executive of Vodafone UK, and most recently President and CEO of Rogers Communications. Early life He was born in Manchester. He went to King's School Macclesfield, Cheshire. He attended Teesside Polytechnic, now Teesside University, beginning in 1992. Career Vodafone He joined Vodafone in 2000. From 2002 to 2005 he was Chief Executive of Vizavvi (Vodafone live!). In 2005, he became Chief Executive of Vodafone Netherlands. He became Chief Executive of Vodafone UK in 2008. Rogers Communications Laurence served as President and CEO of Rogers Communications from 2 December 2013 to 17 October 2016, succeeding Nadir Mohamed who had retired after his 5-year contract expired. Rogers is the largest mobile and cable operator in Canada and second largest media owner. They also own the Toronto Blue Jays and Spor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Premier League
The Premier League (legal name: The Football Association Premier League Limited) is the highest level of the men's English football league system. Contested by 20 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the English Football League (EFL). Seasons typically run from August to May with each team playing 38 matches (playing all 19 other teams both home and away). Most games are played on Saturday and Sunday afternoons, with occasional weekday evening fixtures. The competition was founded as the FA Premier League on 20 February 1992 following the decision of clubs in the Football League First Division to break away from the Football League, founded in 1888, and take advantage of a lucrative television rights sale to Sky. From 2019 to 2020, the league's accumulated television rights deals were worth around £3.1 billion a year, with Sky and BT Group securing the domestic rights to broadcast 128 and 32 games respectively. The Premier League is a corp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toronto Maple Leafs
The Toronto Maple Leafs (officially the Toronto Maple Leaf Hockey Club and often referred to as the Leafs) are a professional ice hockey team based in Toronto. They compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Atlantic Division in the Eastern Conference. The club is owned by Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment, a company that owns several professional sports teams in the city. The Maple Leafs' broadcasting rights are split between BCE Inc. and Rogers Communications. For their first 14 seasons, the club played their home games at the Mutual Street Arena, before moving to Maple Leaf Gardens in 1931. The Maple Leafs moved to their present home, Scotiabank Arena (originally named Air Canada Centre), in February 1999. The club was founded in 1917, operating simply as Toronto and known then as the Toronto Arenas. Under new ownership, the club was renamed the Toronto St. Patricks in 1919. In 1927, the club was purchased by Conn Smythe and renamed the Maple Le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Businesspeople From Manchester
A businessperson, businessman, or businesswoman is an individual who has founded, owns, or holds shares in (including as an angel investor) a private-sector company. A businessperson undertakes activities (commercial or industrial) for the purpose of generating cash flow, sales, and revenue by using a combination of human, financial, intellectual, and physical capital with a view to fueling economic development and growth. History Prehistoric period: Traders Since a "businessman" can mean anyone in industry or commerce, businesspeople have existed as long as industry and commerce have existed. "Commerce" can simply mean "trade", and trade has existed through all of recorded history. The first businesspeople in human history were traders or merchants. Medieval period: Rise of the merchant class Merchants emerged as a "class" in medieval Italy (compare, for example, the Vaishya, the traditional merchant caste in Indian society). Between 1300 and 1500, modern accounting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Telecommunications Industry Businesspeople
British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories, and Crown Dependencies. ** Britishness, the British identity and common culture * British English, the English language as spoken and written in the United Kingdom or, more broadly, throughout the British Isles * Celtic Britons, an ancient ethno-linguistic group * Brittonic languages, a branch of the Insular Celtic language family (formerly called British) ** Common Brittonic, an ancient language Other uses *'' Brit(ish)'', a 2018 memoir by Afua Hirsch *People or things associated with: ** Great Britain, an island ** United Kingdom, a sovereign state ** Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1800) ** United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1801–1922) See also * Terminology of the British Isles * Alternative names for the British * English (other) * Britannic (other) * British Isles * Brit (other) * Briton ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1961 Births
Events January * January 3 ** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba ( Cuba–United States relations are restored in 2015). ** Aero Flight 311 (Koivulahti air disaster): Douglas DC-3C OH-LCC of Finnish airline Aero crashes near Kvevlax (Koivulahti), on approach to Vaasa Airport in Finland, killing all 25 on board, due to pilot error: an investigation finds that the captain and first officer were both exhausted for lack of sleep, and had consumed excessive amounts of alcohol at the time of the crash. It remains the deadliest air disaster to occur in the country. * January 5 ** Italian sculptor Alfredo Fioravanti marches into the U.S. Consulate in Rome, and confesses that he was part of the team that forged the Etruscan terracotta warriors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. ** After the 1960 military coup, General Cemal Gürsel forms the new government of Turkey (25th gove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jens Schulte-Bockum
Jens Schulte-Bockum (born November 20, 1966, in Kirchhellen) is a German manager. He is the former CEO of the German branch of Vodafone and since 2017 he has been Group COO of South African telecom multi-national MTN Group, Johannesburg. Life Schulte-Bockum was born in Kirchhellen in Ruhr in 1966. He studied Liberal Arts at Emory University in Atlanta, US, and economics in Kiel, Germany, and completed his master's degree in economics at the University of Chicago in 1993."Friedrich Joussen bereit für neue Aufgaben bei Vodafone", in: ''Börsen-Zeitung'', 15 March 2012, retrieved 14 February 2023. He was a research assistant at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy from 1989 to 1992. From 1993, Schulte-Bockum worked for the management consultancy McKinsey, heading its Hamburg office from 2000. In 2003, he moved on to Vodafone, where he was initially global head of strategy at the UK site. He then oversaw their devices division from 2005. From 2008 to 2012, he was the CEO of V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeroen Hoencamp
Jeroen Hoencamp (born 27 August 1966) is a Dutch businessman who currently serves as chief executive officer (CEO) of VodafoneZiggo since 1 January 2017. Early life He is from the Netherlands. He gained a bachelor's degree in Business from Nyenrode Business University, in Breukelen, Utrecht (province). Career He served his conscription period as an officer in the Royal Netherlands Marine Corps. He worked in the USA, and returned to the Netherlands in 1994. He acquired an MBA. Vodafone He joined Vodafone Netherlands in 1998, later becoming its Director of Enterprise in 2006. He served as CEO of Vodafone Ireland from 2010 until 2012, later becoming the Chief Executive of Vodafone UK from 2013 until 2016. See also * Ronan Dunne, boss of O2 UK since January 2008 * David Dyson, boss of Three UK since June 2011 * Philipp Humm Philipp Rudolf Humm is an artist, film director and a former European business executive. Early life Humm was born in 1959 in Saarbrücken, Germ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vodafone UK
Vodafone UK is a British telecommunications services provider, and a part of Vodafone Group Plc, the world's second-largest mobile phone company. Vodafone is the third-largest mobile network operator in the United Kingdom, with 16.9 million subscribers as of November 2021, after EE and O2, followed by Three. Vodafone has been the longest running network in the country since its first cellular network call was made in January 1985. The company's current slogan since 2020 is “Together we can”, replacing the previous slogan "The future is exciting. Ready?". The current branding and logo was created in 2017. History Mobile network In 1981, Racal Electronics Group won its bid for the private sector UK Cellular licence, and created Racal Telecomms Division. The same year, Racal formed a joint venture with Millicom named 'Racal Vodafone'. The Vodafone name was first unveiled on 22 March 1984. Vodafone made the first ever cellular telephone call in the United Kingdom on 1 Ja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Read
Nicholas Jonathan Read (born 1964) is a British businessman. He was the CEO of Vodafone from October 2018 to December 2022. Education Read earned a degree in accounting and finance from Manchester Metropolitan University in 1986. He is a Fellow Certified Management Accountant. Career Read worked for Federal Express Corporation, with roles located in the UK, Belgium and the United States. He also worked at United Business Media Plc, performing divisional CFO roles in both companies. While Read was serving as CFO for Vizzavi in 2001, Vodafone bought out its joint venture partner, Vivendi Universal and subsequently merged Vizzavi's operations with Vodafone. Read became the CFO for Vodafone's UK business in 2002 and then CCO in 2003. On 1 May 2006, he became the CEO of Vodafone UK. In 2008, Read became the Group's Chief Executive for the Africa, Middle East and Asia region. As part of the role he became a board member of numerous Vodafone subsidiaries, joint ventures and minori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buckinghamshire
Buckinghamshire (), abbreviated Bucks, is a ceremonial county in South East England that borders Greater London to the south-east, Berkshire to the south, Oxfordshire to the west, Northamptonshire to the north, Bedfordshire to the north-east and Hertfordshire to the east. Buckinghamshire is one of the Home Counties, the counties of England that surround Greater London. Towns such as High Wycombe, Amersham, Chesham and the Chalfonts in the east and southeast of the county are parts of the London commuter belt, forming some of the most densely populated parts of the county, with some even being served by the London Underground. Development in this region is restricted by the Metropolitan Green Belt. The county's largest settlement and only city is Milton Keynes in the northeast, which with the surrounding area is administered by Milton Keynes City Council as a unitary authority separately to the rest of Buckinghamshire. The remainder of the county is administered by Bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toronto Marlies
The Toronto Marlies are a professional ice hockey team based in Toronto. They compete in the American Hockey League (AHL) as a member of the North Division of the Eastern Conference. The Marlies is owned by Maple Leafs Sports & Entertainment, a company that owns several professional sports teams in the city, including their NHL affiliate, the Toronto Maple Leafs. The Marlies have played their home games at Coca-Cola Coliseum since 2005. The Marlies was established as the New Brunswick Hawks in 1978. The team relocated three times, to St. Catharines Saints, St. Catharines, Newmarket Saints, Newmarket, and St. John's Maple Leafs, St. John's, before relocating to Toronto in 2005. As a part of its relocation to Toronto, the team was renamed the ''Marlies'', after the Toronto Marlboros, a junior hockey team formerly sponsored by the Maple Leafs. The Marlies have advanced to the Calder Cup Finals in 2012 and 2018, with the Marlies having won the latter series. History The Marlies trace ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toronto FC
Toronto Football Club (commonly known as Toronto FC or TFC) is a Canadian professional soccer club based in Toronto. The club competes in Major League Soccer (MLS) as a member of the Eastern Conference. The team plays its home matches at BMO Field, located at Exhibition Place on Toronto's shoreline west of Downtown Toronto. Toronto FC joined MLS in 2007 as an expansion team and was the first Canadian-based franchise in the league. The first team is operated by Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment (MLSE), which also operates the MLS Next Pro affiliate team Toronto FC II and most other professional sports franchises in the city, like the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League (NHL), Toronto Raptors of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League (CFL). In 2017, Toronto FC won the domestic treble with the MLS Cup, Supporters' Shield and Canadian Championship, making them the first and only MLS club to ev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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