Group Directors

Vanessa has over 15 years senior management experience within some of the most successful telecommunications companies around the globe.

She was appointed CEO of Digicel Pacific in June 2006, and holds responsibility for the overall management, performance and growth of one of the most dynamic and fast-growing companies in the Pacific region. The company presently has operations in Fiji, Nauru, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Tonga and Vanuatu, employing over 1100 people across the region.

Prior to taking up her present role in Digicel Pacific, Vanessa held a number of positions within Digicel Caribbean, which she joined in August 2003, including General Manager (Digicel Anguilla), Commercial Director (Digicel Trinidad & Tobago) and Marketing Director (Digicel Haiti). Vanessa also worked on the rollout and launch of the company’s networks in Barbados and the Cayman Islands.

Before joining Digicel, Vanessa worked with the Caudwell Group, one of the largest phone distributors in the world. Prior to this, she worked in Ireland at Eircell (now Vodafone) and Eircom, the national landline operator in Ireland.

Vanessa was educated in Marketing and Project Management at the Irish Management Institution, the Dublin Institute of Technology and University College Dublin.

David joined Digicel Pacific in 2006 as General Counsel, and holds responsibility for the Legal and Regulatory affairs for all operations in the Pacific. This means advising from the early phases of liberalization, licensing and acquisitions to the pre-launch phases of financing, site acquisition and network roll out to the day-to-day operational phase following a commercial launch.

Prior to joining Digicel Pacific, David was formerly General Counsel for Digicel Group in the Caribbean.

Before joining Digicel, David previously headed up the Competition and Regulatory Practice of Eugene F.Collins and prior to that was with the internationally acclaimed law firm, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher L.L.P. His time was divided between providing advice for, and in defense of, private companies and counseling to the European Commission and Government institutions regarding both policy development and enforcement strategy.

David attended Christian Brothers College and Clongowes Wood College. He graduated from University College Cork with a Bachelor of Civil Law Degree.

Prior to joining Digicel, Mike was Finance Director of Breeo Foods Limited, a leading Irish food company with operations in Ireland, UK and Holland. Prior to this Mike was Group Financial Controller of Dairygold Co-op responsible for all aspects of financial and treasury management. In addition to this experience, Mike has also worked for Statoil Ireland Limited in various financial positions.

He received a Bachelor of Commerce degree from University College Cork and is an Associate Member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants.

Frank was Digicel’s first employee in April 1999 when the company set about completing an assessment of the opportunities in the liberalizing telecommunications markets across the Caribbean region, which led to acquiring Digicel’s first licence in the year 2000 in Jamaica. During his time as Business Development Director for Digicel in the Caribbean region, the company also secured telecommunications licences in Barbados, the Cayman Islands, Aruba, St. Lucia, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, Grenada and Dominica and well established foundations were set across the rest of the Caribbean.

Prior to joining Digicel, Frank was Personal Assistant to Denis O’Brien from February 1997 and worked across a number of his companies including Communicorp Group, Esat Telecom Group plc and many of Mr. O’Brien’s personal investments in real estate, utilities and communications. Frank was Company Secretary of Communicorp Group and of Esat Telecom Group plc during which time it listed on the stock exchanges Nasdaq, Easdaq and Iseq. Frank also worked on successful licence and funding applications in Ireland for 98FM, Special Olympics 2003 World Summer Games, Spin FM, Boxer Ireland and Media Lab Europe.

Before joining Mr. O’Brien, Frank was Programme Manager of the Marketing Development Programme at the Michael Smurfit Graduate School of Business in University College Dublin from July 1992. Previous to that, Frank completed commercial projects in Ireland for Premier Dairies Group, the Department of Tourism, Mitsubishi Electric and the Telecom Eireann/France Telecom joint venture, Minitel.

Frank holds degrees in Commerce (Banking & Finance), Marketing and Management from University College Dublin.