eircom Announces New CFO and CIO

eircom Announces New CFO and CIO
(Issued 18 May, 2015) eircom Group today announced the appointment of Mr Huib
Costermans as Group Chief Financial Officer. He will also be appointed as an executive
director of the board of eircom Limited. In a separate announcement, Erik Slooten has been
appointed as the company’s Chief Information Officer. Both will take up their roles in August.
Mr Costermans is an experienced telecommunications executive with deep operational
finance knowledge. He has worked with Dutch operator KPN for the past seven years in a
number of roles including CFO for its Wholesale and Operations functions, CFO of E-Plus in
Germany and CFO of KPN’s Dutch operations. Before joining KPN, Huib spent 16 years in
various roles with Organon, a Dutch pharmaceutical company that used to be part of Akzo
Nobel.
Erik Slooten joins from T-Mobile in the Czech Republic, where he was Regional Vice
President for Processes and Systems. Prior to this, he was CIO of GTS, also in the Czech
Republic. He was previously CIO at Vivacom in Bulgaria.
Commenting on the announcements, Richard Moat, CEO, eircom Group said, “eircom is
delighted to appoint Huib and Erik. They both bring significant industry experience and
commercial acumen to help us execute on our strategic and operational plans for the
business.”
ENDS
For media queries, please contact:
Paul Bradley
eircom
Director of Corporate Affairs
Tel: 01 600 4281
Mob: 085 174 4281
Paul_bradley@eircom.ie
Brian Bell
WHPR
Managing Director
Tel: 01 669 0030
Mob: 087 2436130
brian.bell@ogilvy.com
Chris Barrie
Citigate Dewe Rogerson
Executive Director
Tel: +44 20 7638 9571
Mob: +44 7968 727 289
Chris.barrie@citigatedr.co.uk
For investor relations queries, please contact:
Tadhg Mangan
eircom
Head of Investor Relations,
Mob: 085 174 6953
tmangan@eircom.ie
For more information on today’s announcement, please visit our Investor Relations
site:
http://investorrelations.eircom.net/