BT Alumni People Moves, May 2019

By BTwatch2019-05-08T00:00:00+01:00

People Movement Highlights
Executive	Activity	Details
Max Taylor	Alumni	Former EE executive Max Taylor was appointed Consumer Director at rival Vodafone UK. Taylor, who was previously MD of Marketing at EE between 2016 and 2018, left the operator in August 2018 following a restructuring of BT’s Consumer division (BTwatch, #298).

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