Liberty Global is a world leader in converged broadband, video and mobile communications services. Our businesses deliver next-generation products through advanced fibre and 5G networks that connect 85 million subscribers across Europe and the United Kingdom. 

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Amy Blair is the Senior Vice President & Chief People Officer at [Liberty Global](/org/liberty-global). Amy has been with the company since January 1998 and has held various positions within the Human Resources department. Her most recent position was Managing Director of Human Resources, European Operations. In this role, they were responsible for all aspects of human resources for [Liberty Global](/org/liberty-global)'s European operations. Amy has also served as a member of the company's Executive Committee.

Amy Blair has a Masters of Business Administration from the [University of Denver](/org/university-of-denver) and a degree from [Colorado College](/org/colorado-college).

Amy Blair reports to Mike Fries, CEO. Some of their coworkers include Tony Hanway - CEO, [Virgin Media Ireland](/org/virgin-media-ireland), Charlie Bracken - Executive Vice President & CFO, and André Krause - CEO, Sunrise UPC.

Amy Blair

Manuel Kohnstamm is a Senior Vice President & Chief Corporate Affairs Officer at [Liberty Global](/org/liberty-global). Manuel has over 20 years of experience in the media and telecommunications industries. 

Kohnstamm began their career as an Associate at EUROPEAN RESEARCH ASSOCIATES from January 1989 to December 1992. Manuel then moved on to Time Warner Inc. where they served as Vice President Public Policy from January 1992 to December 1999. In their current role at [Liberty Global](/org/liberty-global), Kohnstamm is responsible for the company’s government affairs, policy, and regulatory initiatives.

Manuel Kohnstamm completed their high school education at the Clingendael School of International Relations. Manuel then went on to study International Public Law at the [University of Amsterdam](/org/university-of-amsterdam), where they earned their Doctorandus degree.

Manuel Kohnstamm reports to Mike Fries, CEO. Some of their coworkers include André Krause - CEO, Sunrise UPC, Enrique Rodriguez - Executive Vice President & CTO, and Tony Hanway - CEO, [Virgin Media Ireland](/org/virgin-media-ireland).

Manuel Kohnstamm

Charlie Bracken is the Executive Vice President & CFO at [Liberty Global](/org/liberty-global). Prior to joining [Liberty Global](/org/liberty-global), Charlie served as Executive Director, Communications, Media and Technology at [Goldman Sachs](/org/goldman-sachs) from January 1994 to December 1999, where they were responsible for providing merger and corporate finance advice to a number of communications companies, including LGE.

Charlie Bracken has a Bachelor of Arts in Charlie'story from the [University of Cambridge](/org/university-of-cambridge).

They work with John Porter - CEO, [Telenet Group Holding NV](/org/telenet-group-holding-nv), Andrea Salvato - Senior Vice President & Chief Development Officer, and Manuel Kohnstamm - Senior Vice President & Chief Corporate Affairs Officer. Their manager is Mike Fries, CEO.

Charlie Bracken

Bryan Hall is the Executive Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary at [Liberty Global](/org/liberty-global). Bryan has held this position since January 2011. Prior to that, they were the General Counsel for Virgin Media from June 2004 to January 2011. Bryan was also a Partner (Corporate Dept. M&A and Finance) at Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP from July 1998 to June 2004, and an Attorney at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP from January 1994 to December 1998.

Bryan Hall attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where they studied linguistics and earned their BA. Bryan then attended Indiana University Bloomington, where they studied law and earned their JD.

Bryan Hall reports to Mike Fries, CEO. They work with Rick Westerman - SVP, Investor Relations & Corporate Responsibility, John Porter - CEO, [Telenet Group Holding NV](/org/telenet-group-holding-nv), and Tony Hanway - CEO, [Virgin Media Ireland](/org/virgin-media-ireland).

Bryan Hall

James Ryan is the Senior Vice President & Chief Strategy Officer at [Liberty Global](/org/liberty-global). James has over 20 years of experience in the telecommunications, media, and technology (TMT) industries. 

Ryan started their career as an analyst at MMG Patricoff in 1990 and then moved to [Bain & Company](/org/bain) where they worked as an associate consultant for three years. In 1992, they joined the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development as a principal banker and spent five years there. Ryan then moved to [Deutsche Bank](/org/deutsche-bank) in 1997, where they worked on the ECM team focussing on TMT. In 1999, they joined PwC as part of the newly created Privatisation team in the TMT practice. James spent one year at PwC before moving to [Liberty Global](/org/liberty-global), where they have been working for the past 18 years.

James Ryan's educational career includes studying PPE at the University of Oxford and Repton School.

Some of their coworkers include John Porter - CEO, [Telenet Group Holding NV](/org/telenet-group-holding-nv), Baptiest Coopmans - Senior Vice President, and Charlie Bracken - Executive Vice President & CFO. James Ryan reports to Mike Fries, CEO.

James Ryan

Andrea Salvato is currently the Senior Vice President & Chief Development Officer at [Liberty Global](/org/liberty-global). Prior to this, they were a Managing Director at [JPMorgan Chase](/org/jpmorgan-chase)’s investment banking division where they focused on advising telecommunications and media clients, including the predecessor companies to [Liberty Global](/org/liberty-global).

Before their time at [JPMorgan Chase](/org/jpmorgan-chase), Andrea was a Principal Banker at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) from January 1993 until May 1997. Andrea started their career as a Consultant at Company Assistance Limited from June 1991 to January 1993. Andrea then spent two years as an Associate Consultant at [Bain & Company](/org/bain) from September 1989 to June 1991.

They are on a team with Enrique Rodriguez - Executive Vice President & CTO, James Ryan - Senior Vice President & Chief Strategy Officer, and Jason Waldron - Senior Vice President & Chief Accounting Officer. Their manager is Mike Fries, CEO.

Andrea Salvato

Andrew J. Cole is the current director at [Liberty Global](/org/liberty-global). Andrew has also held positions at Glow Financial Services Inc, My Views Media Inc, and Arundel Capital. From May 2013 to October 2017, Cole was a board member at Arundel Capital, a dynamic international hedge fund. Prior to that, they were a board member at Virgin Media from July 2008 to June 2013. As a board member, Cole had mobile business oversight responsibilities. 

Cole has also served as the CEO of Europe/EMEA at Asurion Corp. from April 2007 to May 2014. In addition, they were on the board of advisors at DoCoMo Capital from January 2004 to December 2004. Lastly, Cole was the vice president and telecom practice leader at A.T. Kearney from January 2003 to December 2005.

Andrew J. Cole studied for a BSc in Geography (including Economics & Statistics) at the [University of Bristol](/org/university-of-bristol) and an MSc in Business Administration at the [University of Oxford](/org/university-of-oxford).

Andrew J. Cole

Severina Pascu is the Deputy CEO and Chief Operating Officer of the combined Sunrise UPC business in Switzerland. She has been a long time member of the [Liberty Global](/org/liberty-global) family, having served most recently as CFO and Deputy CEO of Virgin Media in the UK.

Severina joined [Liberty Global](/org/liberty-global) in 2008 as Chief Financial Officer for UPC Romania. Afterwards, she was appointed CEO for Romania and subsequently also for Hungary. Between 2015 and the end of 2017, she led the cable operations in Poland, Hungary, Romania, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and the DTH activities in the CEE region as Managing Director. From 2018 to early 2020, Severina was CEO of [Liberty Global](/org/liberty-global)’s business in Switzerland.

From December 2017 onwards, she held the role of Chief Operating Officer Central Europe and CEO for the Central Eastern European activities. In this role she was responsible for UPC’s businesses in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and DTH located in Luxembourg.

Before she joined [Liberty Global](/org/liberty-global) in 2008, Severina held a number of senior management positions in leading international companies.  Between 2005 and 2008, she held an executive position at CAIB Romania, one of the main investment banks in Central Europe. Between 2000 and 2005, she was part of the management of the American cable telecommunications company Metromedia International. Severina – a graduate of the Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies – began her career in 1996 at KPMG Romania and then worked for the company in Great Britain.

Severina Pascu

Enrique Rodriguez

Baptiest joined the Liberty group in 2013 as the Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Ziggo, then UPC Netherlands, where he led the merger of UPC and Ziggo to become the leading national cable and media-operator achieving sizable synergies.

He is a member of the Supervisory Board at VodafoneZiggo Group Holding B.V., a Dutch joint venture of [Liberty Global](/org/liberty-global) and Vodafone Group Plc. Baptiest was SVP Operations at [Liberty Global](/org/liberty-global) from 2018 to early 2020, overseeing our technology, network and its operations across Europe as well as the services we deliver to other operators. Through 2020, he was the interim CEO of UPC Switzerland, preparing the company for the merger with Sunrise into Sunrise-UPC.

Prior to joining [Liberty Global](/org/liberty-global), he was the Managing Director and a member of the Board of Directors at KPN, the Dutch incumbent telecommunications operator, from 2006-2011. He also had an 18-year career at [Unilever](/org/unilever), including a period as [Unilever](/org/unilever) Mexico’s Chairman and Country Chief Executive Officer.

He holds a Master of Science (MSc) in Industrial engineering from the Eindhoven University of Technology.



Baptiest Coopmans

Marisa’s extensive experience includes a long career at the international financial services company, [Credit Suisse](/org/credit-suisse), where she held a variety of roles including Co-Head of Investment Banking and Capital Markets for EMEA and Global Co-Head of the Global Markets Solutions Group, and most recently as Chief Sustainability Officer and Global Head of Sustainability Strategy, Advisory and Finance. Prior to that she worked for Merrill Lynch and the private equity firm and investment bank, Kidder Peabody. In 2022, Ms. Drew was recognized by Sustainability Magazine as one of the Top 10 CSOs of a Global Corporation and in 2021 as one of 100 Global Visionary Leaders by Meaningful Business. Starting in July, Ms. Drew will become Chief Sustainability Officer at [Standard Chartered Bank](/org/standard-chartered-bank).

Marisa Drew

Daniel’s experience includes 30 years as a private practice attorney, representing individuals and business clients in a variety of non-litigation areas. He was a full member of the Board of Ethics of the City of Stamford, CT, which he was appointed to by the mayor in 2012. He is a member of the Development Committee of the Smithsonian Museum of the American Latino and is active in Latinos for Education, which connects diverse leaders to the education sector to create equity and opportunity for Latino youth. He has previously held board positions at [Lionsgate](/org/lionsgate) and [Starz](/org/starz). In 2012, he earned his master’s degree in tax law (LL.M.).

Daniel Sanchez

Tony Hanway has been CEO of Virgin Media Ireland since 2015. Virgin Media is Ireland’s leading connected entertainment provider offering market-leading Broadband, TV, fixed and mobile phone services to the Irish consumer and B2B market. Virgin Media Ireland also incorporates Ireland’s leading commercial broadcaster, Virgin Media Television.

Before joining Liberty Global he spent a decade at O2/Telefonica where he held a number of board-level roles including;  CEO O2 Ireland , Consumer Director O2 Ireland, Consumer Director Telefonica O2 Czech Republic and Chief Commercial Officer of O2 Deutschland. From 1995 to 2005 Tony held senior positions at the internet pioneer AOL (UK) where he was an executive board member, Vice President of Customer Care and Managing Director AOL Europe Operations Ltd.

Tony holds an MSc in HRM, Training and Performance Management from the University of Leicester.



Tony Hanway

André Krause is the Chief Executive Officer of the combined Sunrise UPC business in Switzerland.

Prior to this, from January to mid-November 2020, he was CEO of Sunrise. André  joined Sunrise as Chief Financial Officer in 2011 – a position he held until the end of 2019.

Before his involvement in Sunrise, he spent seven years at Telefónica O2 Germany in Munich, first as Vice President Strategy & Consulting (2004-2006), then as Chief Financial Officer(2006-2011). From 1999 until 2004, André Krause was Associate Principal as well as a member of the TIME practice at McKinsey & Company in Düsseldorf.

From 1997 until 1999, he worked at Arthur Andersen in Düsseldorf as Assistant Computer Risk Management and Auditing.

André holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Bielefeld.

André Krause

Richard Green

Mike Fries

Jason Waldron

John Porter

Miranda Curtis is the current Director at [Liberty Global](/org/liberty-global). Prior to this, they held the position of Lifecycle Marketing Manager at Segment from March 2019 to April 2022. Miranda was then acquired by [Twilio](/org/twilio) in November 2020. Miranda has also worked as a Marketing Manager - Content at Umbra from January 2018 to February 2019, before the company was acquired by Amazon. In October 2017, they became a Brand & Communications Associate at [Crystal Dynamics](/org/crystal-dynamics), and in April 2017, they started working as a Marketing Communications Specialist at [uBiome](/org/ubiome). Lastly, from June 2016 to February 2017, Miranda was a Marketing Events Coordinator at MFactor Meetings in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Miranda Curtis earned a Bachelor of Science in Business with a concentration in marketing from [Menlo College](/org/menlo-college).

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