Management team

Managing Director - Keith Hawkins

Keith Hawkins is Managing Director of UK Broadband.

Keith joined UK Broadband at the start of 2004, after three years with Freeserve, where he was Managing Director for Marketing and later Managing Director for Consumer.

Previously, he served two years at AOL as Group Marketing Director for the UK. Whilst working in the Internet market, Keith has been part of teams that won four of the UK ISP industry's awards - including twice for best national consumer ISP.

Keith has an Honours degree in Engineering from the University of Birmingham, and is a Fellow of the Institute of Direct Marketing, and a Member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, and is a Fellow of the RSA. Before moving into the internet market, he had a number of senior marketing roles within the media industry with Mirror Group Newspapers and Bertelsmann publishing, after early experience with Procter & Gamble and Seagram.  

SVP Network Operations - Simon Fawthrop

Simon Fawthrop is Senior Vice president, Operations, with responsibility for network design, build and day to day operation.

As a consultant, Simon was a member of the PCCW licence bidding team that acquired the UKBroadband FWA licences, with responsibility for all network and operational planning. He stayed with UK Broadband after the licenses were acquired and was responsible for the design and build of the Soft Launch.

Before joining UK Broadband he spent 10 years as a consultant working on numerous GSM, CDMA and general telecommunications projects around the world where he specialised in network design and roll out with a focus on assisting companies whose roll outs had been failing. He was also Network Director for the successful design and build of a VoIP network based in Austria and with operations in a number of East European countries. Prior to that, Simon spent four years with Orange UK as Radio Planning Manager for London and the South East of England as part of the team that brought them to a successful launch.

Simon started his career in the Royal Signals as an apprentice, gaining an HND in telecommunications before leaving as a Warrant Officer after 17 years to join GEC corporate networks in the early days of telecommunications liberalisation.

Chief Technology Officer – Gerard MacNamee

Gerard MacNamee is CTO of UK Broadband having joined the company in February 2004.

Gerard qualified from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology with a BSC Hons in Electronics. His first job was with Philips Research Laboratories where he conducted some of the leading work on commercial digital radio systems. His work lead directly to the DECT standard and he is the author of a text book on DECT. He went on to work on the first digital cellular systems and as part of the competition to find a second generation technology led a team proposing a CDMA approach for what has now become GSM. He then went on to form and lead a pan European consortium (The RACE mobile project) that did the first work on third generation systems and went to create UMTS WCDMA.

He left the R&D world to join Hutchison Telecommunications (now known as Orange) to plan and implement commercial deployments of macro and micro cell networks. As well as the UK operations he also participated in Hutchison’s plans for European expansion. Following the Orange network build, the engineering management team left to form a consulting company, called Contactica, offering digital cellular network design services around the world. With Contactica he worked on cellular network deployments in Hong Kong, Korea, Italy, South Africa and Latin America. He also worked on several fixed wireless projects and on optical/IP networks.

Chief Information Officer – David Jenkins

David Jenkins is Chief Information Officer of UK Broadband.

David joined UK Broadband after two years with Red Spectrum in the UK where he was Managing Director. While at Red Spectrum, he was responsible for obtaining the rights to one of the Fixed Wireless Licences that was subsequently acquired by PCCW to give them an exclusive National footprint.

Prior to founding Red Spectrum, David spent over 12 years as a management consultant. He was a Senior Principal and founding member of the Strategy Practice for DiamondCluster where he led multi-year engagements with United Airlines and SWIFT. Prior to that, he was a Principal consultant with AMS where he played a key role in establishing their office in London. While at AMS, he managed multiple projects at Barclays Bank, as well as at UNISOURCE.

David began his career as a research and development engineer at IBM’s Glendale Labs in New York. He has a Bachelor Degree in Computer Science from the University of Utah and has an MBA from Cornell’s Johnson Graduate School of Management.

SVP Finance – Kelvin Walker

 Kelvin Walker is SVP Finance for UK Broadband Ltd

Kelvin joined PCCW in 2000 as a Senior Accountant working on the NOW operation in London.  In 2004 he was seconded to the role of Financial Controller at UK Broadband for a year and helped setup the Finance department, returning in 2006 to work fulltime for UK Broadband

 Prior to PCCW Kelvin has worked as a Financial Accountant for NDL, a database marketing company (1994-1996) and more recently  as a Senior Financial Accountant and Assistant Financial Controller at Warner Music UK Ltd (1996-2000) .  Here he helped implement the integration of London Records into Warner Music as well as managing the migration to a Global Financial System.

 Kelvin graduated with a degree in Business Studies in 1993 and became an ACCA qualified accountant in 1999. Kelvin is now a fellow of the ACCA.

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