Leadership

Leadership

The North leadership team are committed to the highest standards of customer service and corporate governance. The team’s combined decades of industry experience drive our sustained success, leading our people, customers and shareholders forward with confidence.

Profiles

David Crawford

David Crawford

Chief Executive Officer

David Crawford joined North in April 2023 as Chief Executive Officer.

Previously, David was UK Managing Director at Cellnex Telecom, where he was responsible for integrating the business into the group operating model, driving local organic and inorganic growth and developing key customer relationships. With a wealth of experience, he has held various executive roles leading business units as well as transformation and integration programmes in the telecoms and outsourcing sectors at Capita and Cable & Wireless. Earlier in his career, he worked for the leading strategy consultancy Bain & Co.

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Coreen Bone

Coreen Bone

Chief People Officer

Coreen Bone is Chief People Officer at North.

Having joined North in September 2021, Coreen is an integral member of the senior leadership team and is responsible for implementing North’s vision and shaping and driving our people strategy, operations, culture, learning and development, and talent acquisition.

With more than 20 years’ experience working across a variety of sectors, including in executive roles at Xerox Business Services, Coreen has delivered strategic and operational people solutions at a global level to support large-scale growth and the successful integration of acquired businesses.

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Andrew Halliwell

Andrew Halliwell

Chief Products & Propositions Officer

Andrew is responsible for developing and evolving North’s marketing strategy, products and partnerships to support sustainable and profitable market growth with existing and new customers.

Andrew has a wealth of experience across product management, commercial, marketing and sales roles focused on implementing strategic change and developing new growth markets within B2B communications service providers. Having held a number of leadership roles at Virgin Media Business, Vodafone and Cable & Wireless, Andrew joined North in November 2023 from Virgin Media O2 where most recently, he held the position of Director of Products & Partners.

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Stephen Forbes

Stephen Forbes

Chief Financial Officer

Stephen joined North in November 2023 as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and oversees the company’s financial, commercial and procurement functions.

He has a wealth of experience, having previously held executive business, commercial and financial roles in the energy, telecoms and technology sectors.

Most recently he was Chief Financial Officer at Neos Networks, and prior to this held several positions at SSE plc, including Managing Director and Chief Commercial Officer of their Retail business.

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Andrew Foster

Andrew Foster

Managing Director, Public Services

Mike Yuen

Mike Yuen

Managing Director, Enterprise & Data Centres

Rich Green

Rich Green

Managing Director, Defence & Justice

Patrick Bradd

Patrick Bradd

Chief Acceleration Officer