Andrew Taylor, 38

Profile
Andrew Taylor was appointed to the Intec Board on 3 January 2008 as Chief Executive Officer. Andrew joined from Alcatel - Lucent where he was Chief Operating Officer of the UK and Ireland region and a Corporate Executive at Alcatel - Lucent. He was appointed to this role after the merger of Alcatel - Lucent in November 2006. Prior to this, Andrew was Lucent Technologies’ Managing Director for the UK, Ireland and the Nordics region where, over a two and a half year period he achieved a dramatic turnaround, almost tripling Lucent’s revenues in the region.

Previously in his career, Andrew Taylor spent eight years working at BT, gaining significant Telecoms experience within a range of sales, service and business management roles. From 1996 to 2000 he grew to become Sales and Service Business Manager for BT UK and by November 2001 he was VP of Business Markets for Viag Intekom (O2 Germany) and serving as a main board member. From 2001 to 2003 he was General Manager for BT Mobility, with responsibility for Sales, Channel Management and Marketing, and from 2003 to 2004 he was General Manager for BT’s Business, Enterprise (SME) Segment.

Andrew Taylor has been a Non-Executive Director and Remuneration Committee Chairman of Scottish Water Business Stream Limited since November 2006 and is currently a director and Board member of Allium Financial Services. Andrew Taylor has an MA from Dundee University and a Business Masters (Marketing) from Strathclyde University Business School.