Arqiva Group, a leading UK communications infrastructure company, this week announced that former eir CEO Paul Donovan has been appointed CEO with immediate effect.
Paul Donovan has over twenty years’ experience in senior executive roles across the technology, media and telecommunications sectors. He is currently non-executive Director on Arqiva’s Board and has previously been CEO of Odeon and UCI Cinemas Group and, before that, CEO of eir, Ireland’s leading telecommunications business. He was also a member of the Group’s Executive Committee at Vodafone where he led the Group’s emerging markets businesses.
Paul Donovan succeeds Simon Beresford-Wylie who has been CEO since August 2015. During Simon Beresford-Wylie’s tenure as CEO he has simplified the business and successfully driven year on year improvement in both revenue (four year CAGR of 3.9% to £999.5m last financial year) and EBITDA (CAGR of 5.9% to £526.4m in 2019).
Paul Donovan, CEO of Arqiva Group
If anything, the current crisis has shown the importance of staying connected through news, entertainment and communication and has really underlined the important service that my colleagues at Arqiva provide.
