Olaf Swantee (born 31 January 1966) is a Dutch businessman, and the former Chief Executive of EE Limited (formerly Everything Everywhere), a British telecommunications company.

Early life

He is the second son of a legal professional. He went to school in Hilversum in North Holland at the Nieuwe Lyceum Hilversum Gymnasium. He went to the

University of Amsterdam The University of Amsterdam (abbreviated as UvA, nl, Universiteit van Amsterdam) is a public research university located in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The UvA is one of two large, publicly funded research universities in the city, the other being ...

to study Economics. Later he did an MBA at EAP (École des Affaires de Paris) in Paris, Berlin, and Oxford, which became

ESCP Europe ESCP Business School (french: École Supérieure de Commerce de Paris) is a French business school and ''grande école'' founded in Paris and based across Europe with campuses in Paris, Berlin, London, Madrid, Turin, and Warsaw. It is consisten ...

, in 1989. At Oxford he took up rowing.

Career

He started with

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, then moved to the

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, which was bought by Compaq in 1998. HP bought Compaq in 2002. T-Mobile UK HQ - geograph

Orange

He joined Orange in 2007. He served as Head of Mobile Operations of Europe & Middle East of France Telecom at Orange Home UK Limited since August 2007 and served as its Executive Vice President of Europe of France Telecom.

Everything Everywhere

He became Chief Executive of EE on 1 September 2011. EE has a main office in

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. EE has around 580 stores, and is known for its cinema adverts with

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. In January 2015 it was announced that BT would buy EE for £12.5bn. Everything Everywhere had been formed on 1 July 2010. On 4 January 2016 EE announced that Swantee would be standing down as CEO after the acquisition by BT was completed. EE Retail Store

Sunrise

From 9 May 2016 to 3 January 2020 Swantee was CEO of Swiss telecommunications company

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Personal life

He has a Swedish wife. His son Gustav, who is currently studying at

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in Switzerland, and two daughters were born in Switzerland (Zurich). He lives in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames.

References

External links

EE

4G networks in August 2012
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