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Thomas Simon Alexander (born 10 July 1959) is a British businessman, and a former Chief Executive of Orange (UK).
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Early life
He attended Millfield, the independent school, as a day scholar from 1971-75.
Career
He worked for BT Cellnet from 1992-98.
Virgin Mobile
He set up and founded Virgin Mobile, which was launched in November 1999 with his colleague from BT Cellnet, Jo Steel . Virgin Mobile was a joint venture between One2One and Virgin Group. He became Chief Executive of Virgin Mobile. Virgin Mobile was floated on the stock exchange in 2004 for £500m, then sold to NTL in 2006 for £1bn.
He left Virgin Mobile in 2006.
Orange
He became Chief Executive of Orange UK in January 2008.
EE
In September 2009, T-Mobile decided to merge its UK operations with Orange UK to become EE Limited. He became the first Chief Executive in 2010. EE at the time had 28m customers. EE is headquartered in Hertfordshire. Richard Moat, the former Chief Executive of T-Mobile UK, became Chief Operation Officer of EE.
Personal life
He is married with two children.