Nigel Eastwood

Nigel Anthony Eastwood (born 19 February 1967) is a British-born entrepreneur, businessperson, founder and Group CEO of the New Call Telecom International.

Eastwood started his corporate career in telecoms as Sales Director at telecommunications company Daisy Commercial. He was later appointed Channel Development Director at Fizz Telecom before moving to Primus Telecommunications Group as Sales Director in 2008. He holds an MBA in Strategic Management from the Lancashire Business School at UCLAN.

In 2010, he led the management buy-in of Primus from its parent company, PTGi, to become CEO of the new company, New Call Telecom. Based in London, it has a call center function in Nelson, Lancashire, which was relocated back from India in 2011. The company provides telecoms and Internet services to over 750,000 subscribers in the UK, and operates a number of telecoms brands, including Newcall telecom rebranded Fuel Broadband, Planet Talk, Just Dial, and Rate Buster.

In 2014, New Call Telecom established a presence in India. In October 2014, it was announced that it had acquired a 70 per cent stake in social messaging platform Nimbuzz for $175 million. In February 2015, the company announced the acquisition of India's largest public Wi-Fi provider Ozone.

Through New Call Telecom Eastwood is also a shareholder and board member of international wholesale voice carrier WaveCrest UK.

Eastwood ceased to be CEO of Newcall telecom/Fuel Broadband in June 2016 https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/08921235/officers