Dublin, Ireland - August 3, 2012, Dublin, Ireland - eircom Group, a telecommunications company, announced the appointment of Herb Hribar as group chief executive officer and Richard Moat as group chief financial officer.
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Mr. Hribar has extensive operational experience in the telecommunications and TV industries both in the US and Europe. Mr. Hribar held a number of leadership positions, including as President of Ameritech Wireless, Managing Director, Ameritech Europe, GM of Sprint International, President and COO of Verio, COO of Cablecom and COO of Kabel Deutschland.
Mr. Herb holds an MS in Civil Engineering from University of Illinois, MS in Computer Science at John Hopkins University and an MBA from George Washington University. He is a graduate of the US Naval Academy with a BS in Ocean Engineering and served for 9 years as an officer in the United States Navy. Mr. Herb is also the non-executive Chairman of Zevas, a technology based outsourced contact center headquarters in Cork, Ireland.
Mr. Moat brings more than 20 years of international mobile experience, most recently leading T-Mobile UK as its Managing Director, before becoming Deputy Chief Executive and Chief Financial Officer of Everything Everywhere.
Mr. Moat became Managing Director of T-Mobile UK in June 2009. During the previous 17 years, he held leading positions within France Telecom's Orange Group, most recently as CEO of Orange Romania. Between 2000 and 2004, he was CEO of Orange Thailand and CEO Orange Denmark. Prior to this, after joining Orange in 1992 as a senior manager in the finance function, he progressed to become Corporate Finance Director, and subsequently International Group Director of Finance.
Before joining Orange, he spent 12 years with the USX/Marathon Group in various financial positions. In his early career, he was an analyst for Sedgwick plc and Lloyd's of London. Mr. Moat is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Certified Accountants, holds a diploma in corporate finance and accounting from London Business School, and an MA honours in law from St Catharine's College, Cambridge. ■