Telefónica Peoplewatch: Spain/centre rebooted; Virgin Media O2 continues shake-up with B2B/B2C swaps
September 2026 update: A roundup of high-level moves at recalibrating Spanish giant, including a major reorganisation involving Telefónica España and Group functions. Changes also continue at challenged VM O2, with the chief of new B2B arm O2 Business leaving and a former Liberty and Sky exec brought in as Chief Consumer Officer.
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- Organisations: 1&1 Telecommunication; Bamboo Connect; Bluevía; Capheaton Consulting; Cornerstone; Crédit Agricole Assurances; Daisy; Daisy Group; Ericsson; Giacom; GrowthStance; Infravia; Jet Infrastructure; Juntos Somos Mais; Lenovo; Liberty Global; Livensa Group; Lyntia Networks; McKinsey; Mobile Broadband Network Limited; nexfibre; O2; O2 Business; Pets at Home; RTL Group; Sky; Sky Deutschland; Telefónica; Telefónica Deutschland; Telefónica España; Telefónica UK; Telefónica|Vivo; Telekom Deutschland; TIM Brasil; Vantage Towers Spain; Virgin Media O2; Wayra.
- Geographies: Brazil; Europe; Germany; Portugal; Spain; United Kingdom (UK).
- People: Alberto Ruano; Andy Alexander; Borja Ochoa; Carlos Posa; Christian Hindennach; Colin Rand; Emilio Gayo; Francisco Romar; Gareth Vaughan Jones; Helen Main; Irene Gómez; Jo Bertram; Jorge Navais; José Antonio López; Kathryn Imrie; Luis Rivera; Lyssa McGowan; Marc Finney; Marlon Flesner; Matt Riley; Michael Kieninger; Óscar Candiles; Pierre Lefillatre; Rachel Swift; Rob Orr; Sergio Sánchez; Tobias Juchmes; Wolfgang Metze; Yara Guerra Abdo.
- Themes: 5G; advertising sales; advisory services; B2B; B2C; board management; broadband infrastructure; chief consumer officer; chief financial officer; chief operating officer; commercial transformation; consumer; corporate strategy; customer experience; customer management; data centres; debt; devices; digital transformation; enterprise digital solutions; fibre networks; hardware; handset insurance; information and communications technology; joint ventures; leadership reorganisation; management consultancy; mobile networks; network operations; pay television; retail; sales strategy; telecommunications; tower infrastructure; wholesale IT services.
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