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Question: Carl Murdock-Smith - Joh. Berenberg, Gossler & Co. KG, Research Division - Analyst
: Full disclosure, I'm an O2 customer, too, David, if we're doing that. I had a question for Lutz on kind of people and operational priorities in the U.K.
So with Jeff Dodds leaving as COO and being replaced by Ulrik Bengtsson, I was just wondering if you could expand kind of on what made Ulrik
the right candidate to be the new COO and kind of, sitting down with him, what have you set as top of his priority list going forwards?
Lutz Schnler
You're very curious. Look, Ulrik, right, for everybody on the call, is a very experienced senior COO. He used to run William Hill, a gaming and betting
company owned by private equity, acquired another company, Mr. Green, and managed to double the value of this company within 3 years. He's
a digital native. He is very experienced in what we call large-scale organizations, so meaning stores, meaning field, meaning customer service. And
this also answers the question. So we need somebody who is digital first, right? We are driving this company to a data-driven first company. We
need somebody who understands large-scale organization and who has a proven track record to drive value out of it, right?
So this is -- his profile fits perfect to what we -- what I need here. And I mean, look, with Jeff, he was 11 years with Virgin Media and Virgin Media
O2. He helped me tremendously to land in the country with a lot of good stuff together. And so a year ago, he shared with me he was looking out
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for something else. And we couldn't disclose what it is yet. But if you understand what it is and you know Jeff, it takes you millisecond to understand
why he has taken that offer. So stay tuned.
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