Management team

Jim, James, Ed and Ben

James Murray, Chief Executive Officer
James co-founded Alternative Networks in 1994 following several sales and engineering roles with London based telecoms dealers. He was Joint Managing Director from 1994 until 2000 when he became Managing Director. In 2003 he became Chief Executive Officer. In 2005, James was awarded Ernst and Young’s “Young Entrepreneur of the Year” Award.

Edward Spurrier, Chief Financial Officer
Ed joined Alternative Networks as Finance Director in 1999. A member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, he trained and qualified at Coopers and Lybrand (now PwC) in London. He has over 12 years public practice experience, with a focus on advising entrepreneurs on managing growth. He led the establishment of the billing, finance, legal and business development departments within Alternative Networks. His current responsibilities also include IT operations and development.

Ben Marnham, Chief Operating Officer
Ben graduated from the University of York in 1994 and joined Alternative Networks at its inception. His role expanded from sales manager in 1996 to include management of the telemarketing and account management operations in 1997. In 1998, he was promoted to Network Resale Director retaining responsibility for client management. Ben joined the Board of Directors in 1999 as Commercial Director and was appointed Chief Operating Officer in 2004.

Jim Sewell, Group Sales and Marketing Director
Jim graduated from Manchester University in 1993 and joined Alternative Networks in October 1994. In 1996 he became Sales Manager of one of the two sales teams, before setting up and managing the NGN Solutions division in 1997. In 1998 he took over management of the Managed Voice Solutions sales team, and in 1999 joined the Board as Sales Director. Appointed Group Sales Director in 2004, Jim is now responsible for new sales across the Group, as well as for the Marketing and Products teams, ensuring key focus on client retention and cross-selling throughout the newly enlarged Group.

James Riley, National Sales Director
James graduated from the University of the West of England with a Business Studies degree in 1994 and spent 7 years in various sales roles at Lexmark and Xerox. In November 2000 he joined AN to head up the Client Management department. Within a year James role was expanded to include management of the network sales teams in the south as Southern Sales Director . In 2005 James took responsibility nationally for the network sales and internal sales teams as Network Sales Director. In April 2007 he joined the board as National Sales Director with responsibility for winning new customers for network services and mobile  products in the UK.
 

Non-executive Directors

Kenneth McGeorge, Non-executive Chairman

Ken joined Vodafone in 1984, some six months before services commenced, and was initially involved in the recruitment and training of the first 100 sales staff in the business. He has held various senior sales, marketing and general management positions in Vodafone, culminating in Head of Enterprise Business Unit following the successful combination of the Project Telecom, Vodafone Business Direct, and 4U Corporate business into a single entity for which he was responsible.