Speaker profile

Rick played an important role in the merger of Virgin Media predecessor companies ntl and Telewest, and led the attendant £5billion bank and bond financing. His team completed a three-year refinancing of the company’s capital structure earlier this year, and recently announced an initial capital return programme of up to £700m.

Corporate profile

Virgin Media is a leading provider of entertainment and communications services in the U.K offering “quad-play” broadband internet, television, mobile telephony and fixed line telephony services. The company is one of the U.K.’s largest providers of residential broadband internet, pay television and fixed line telephony services by number of customers. Virgin Media is also one the U.K.’s largest mobile virtual network operators by number of customers. In addition, the company provides a complete portfolio of voice, data and internet solutions to leading businesses, public sector organisations and service providers in the U.K. through Virgin Media Business, and a broad range of programming through UKTV, our joint venture with BBC Worldwide.