Technology >> CEO Interviews >> April 30, 1999

Edmund Bruegger – European Telecom Plc (ete.l)

EDMUND BRUEGGER is Chief Executive Officer of European Telecom plc. He trained as a barrister before starting a career in merchant banking, during which time he was a director of Singer and Friedlander for some six years. He advised major companies such as ITT and McDonalds on Eurobond debt issues, helped a large number of smaller companies float on the London Stock Exchange and was adviser on many mergers, acquisitions and disposals throughout the world. In 1996, he joined Spandex plc, a multinational distributor of computers and consumables to the sign industry, as managing director. In 1998 after completing three further acquisitions Spandex was sold to its major U.S. supplier for a sum of 109 million British Pounds. He has been on the board of European Telecom since its flotation in 1996 and became Chief Executive Officer in November 1998. He is also a Non-Executive Director of Universal Salvage plc. Profile
TWST: Can you give us a brief overview of European Telecom and where you

see yourselves today.

Mr. Bruegger: European Telecom was founded in 1990 and we are a

cellular, particularly GSM