Technology >> CEO Interviews >> April 30, 1999
HANS ROGER SNOOK is the Chief Executive Officer and Group Managing
Director of Orange plc and a Board Director of Hutchison
Telecommunications Limited (a Hutchison Whampoa Company). He is also a
member of the main board of all Group Companies in the U.K., France and
Germany. Mr. Snook joined HTUK in January, 1993. Prior to joining HTUK,
Mr. Snook supervised the consolidation and upgrading of Hutchison
Telecommunications' acquisitions in Hong Kong in the paging, cellular
and CT2/Telepoint industry and created the largest private paging
company in Asia and one of the most profitable globally. In a parallel
role as Group Operations Director he also managed the expansion of
Hutchison Telecommunications paging activities on a world-wide basis
with ongoing businesses and projects in Hong Kong, Australia, Thailand,
Malaysia, the PRC, Macau and India, with a strategy that focused on
revenues, cost control and quality services. Prior to joining the
Hutchison Group twelve years ago, Mr. Snook was General Manager of
Speedy Paging Service Limited in Hong Kong, and also assisted in the
management of the Young Generation Group of paging companies. Before
moving to Hong Kong, Mr. Snook gained extensive managerial experience in
the hotel and hospitality industry in Vancouver and Calgary, Canada. He
graduated from Steveston High School in Richmond and attended the
University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Profile
Mr. Snook: Orange launched service in April, 1994. We always had a
clear vision. In our very first television ad we said, ' In
