Simon currently serves as Chair of Modern Times Group AB, Viaplay Group AB, Lloyd Webber Theatres Limited and YouView TV Limited. He is also a non-executive director of Avianca Group International Holdings Limited.
Until retiring from full-time work in 2008, Simon was Executive Chairman of Tradus Plc, having previously been President and Chief Executive Officer of NASDAQ-listed ntl Inc. Under his leadership ntl acquired Telewest and Virgin Mobile to create Virgin Media Group in 2006.
Prior to ntl, Simon was Chief Financial Officer of Orange SA and before that Chief Executive Officer of Denmark-based wireless data company End2End AS. He joined End2End from Netherlands-based internet service provider WorldOnline International BV, where he was Chief Executive Officer and Deputy Chairman. Previously he had spent eight years at FTSE 100 Thorn EMI Group plc, where he was Group Finance Director and Deputy Chairman, and six years at Guinness plc, including three as Operations Director of United Distillers.
He serves as Chair of the Hurlingham Club and is a former Chair of the Board of Governors of Manchester Metropolitan University and a former trustee of Women’s Aid, a charity that combats domestic abuse, and a former adviser to the NSPCC and to Music of Black Origin, the organiser of the MOBO Awards.
He holds an MA from Oxford University and an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he was a Harkness Fellow.
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