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Andy Hudson,

Chief Network Officer

Andy is Chief Network Officer at Aqua Comms. He was appointed to this position in June 2017 and since joining has made a massive impact, leading all aspects of Aqua Comms’ global operations and engineering. Most recently, Andy held the position of COO at Bermuda Telephone Company (BTC) where he held operational responsibility for network planning, field operations, NMC, SOC, and IT, along with customer care, Sales and Marketing. Andy has more than three decades of experience in the national and international arena, optimising mobile, fixed and subsea operations. Prior to his role at BTC, he was Managing Director of Network Rail Telecom. Under Andy’s leadership he developed services for both critical national infrastructure and the commercialisation of the network, developing a single, unified telecoms organisation focused on improving service availability and customer satisfaction, among other activities. Andy has held other positions, such as Global Vice President, Field Operations, and Infrastructure Engineering at Interoute Communications, as well as Senior Operational responsibilities at BTC where he oversaw operations of the incumbent driving transformation and digitisation of the network. He also spent considerable time as a senior leader at Ebone/GTS and BT. A telecommunications industry veteran, throughout his career he has sustained full operational and managerial responsibility.

Kevin Foley,

Chief Financial Officer

Kevin is Chief Financial Officer at Aqua Comms and is responsible for managing all financial operations as well as tax and treasury. Kevin joined the company in April 2017, having previously acted as CFO for Cable & Wireless Barbados (trading as Flow Barbados), a Liberty Global Company. He has worked extensively in the telecommunications industry and his wealth of experience extends to Fixed Voice, Carrier/Interconnect, Mobile, Internet and Television. Since 2014, he has held various roles at Cable & Wireless, including CFO, Barbados, CFO Cayman Islands, and Finance Director, Carrier Services. Kevin also served as a Board Member for CWC Insurance Ltd. Between 2009 and 2013, he was based in Luxembourg at the inception of Vodafone’s centralised roaming hub, with responsibility for finance operations, and commercial finance. This was following his role at Digicel Group Jamaica as Financial Reporting Manager. Kevin began his career at Deloitte on the graduate recruitment programme. He is a fellow of Chartered Accountants Ireland (ICAI) and holds a B.Comm. from University College Dublin (UCD), and an M.Acc. from the UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate School of Business. He also holds a diploma in Corporate Finance and is a certified PRINCE 2 project manager. Kevin has extensive experience in all aspects financial planning, systems and processes.

Alan Harper

Alan was appointed to the Aqua Comms board in November 2020 and appointed as Chairperson in August 2021.  Alan is an operating partner at Digital 9 Infrastructure PLC. Previously he was strategy director for Vodafone Group PLC from 1995 until 2007 when he founded Eaton Towers which was sold to American Tower for $1.9BN in 2019. Alan was also an independent board director of MTN from 2010 to 2019.

Ed McCormack

Ed was appointed to the Aqua Comms board in February 2019 and holds a seat on the Remuneration Committee, he is currently also a senior adviser to Ciena, a telecoms equipment supplier with market capitalisation of over $8bn. Prior to his current positions, Ed spent 12 years at FLAG Telecom including as CEO where he led the development of c.52,000km global portfolio of subsea fibre.