Former T-Mobile CEO takes merged Orange CFO role

Richard Moat takes the chief financial officer and deputy chief executive role at the newly-merged T-Mobile and Orange.

Moat, formerly CEO of T-Mobile, will take up the position at Everything Everywhere, the name of the newly merged business, later this year.

Moat spent 17 years at France Telecom's Orange prior to joining T-Mobile in June 2009.

He was most recently CEO of Orange Romania and before that held CEO positions at Thailand and Denmark.

Moat joined Orange in 1992 as senior manager in the finance function, moving through the ranks to corporate finance director and international group director of finance.

He was reportedly origninally lined up for the COO role at the business. Moat will work with CEO Tom Alexander, the previous UK CEO of Orange.

T-Mobile's previous finance director, Lars Nordmark, left the business earlier this year.

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