David Dyson, currently Chief Operating Officer at Three UK, will take over as the company’s CEO from 1st July 2011.
Current CEO Kevin Russell, who’s been in the role for four and a half years, plans to return to Australia.
David Dyson worked in Three Group’s Swedish business as Deputy Chief Financial Officer before moving to what’s now Vodafone Hutchison Australia as CFO (where he first worked with Kevin Russell) and then joining Three UK as CFO in 2006. He became COO of Three UK in 2009.