Talk:Tom Alexander (businessman)
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This article should be considered for deletion. It seems to be pure PR puff. There are literally no reliable references at all. See WP:V There are lots of generalised links to company websites and, oddly, quite a bit of biographical detail unsupported by the sources given. It's almost as if the article has been created from a sheet of A4 handed by the subject to the creator. Here are some more specific comments on every part of the article:
Thomas Simon Alexander (born 10 July 1959)[1] is a British businessman, and a former Chief Executive of Orange (UK).
This information is not consistent with the information at the frankly odd reference 1 (Companies House, UK).
Alexander attended Millfield, the independent school, as a day scholar from 1971-75.[2]
This information is not in any respect confirmed by reference 2. Reference 2 is a primary source, in any case.
Alexander worked for BT Cellnet from 1992-98.
No citation to support.
Alexander set up and founded Virgin Mobile, which was launched in November 1999 with his colleague from BT Cellnet, Jo Steel .[3] Virgin Mobile was a joint venture between One2One and Virgin Group. He became Chief Executive of Virgin Mobile. Virgin Mobile was floated on the stock exchange in 2004 for £500m, then sold to NTL in 2006 for £1bn.
He left Virgin Mobile in 2006.'
Again, none of this is supported by citations. Reference 3 is a puff piece which makes no mention of most of the details given here.
Alexander became Chief Executive of Orange UK in January 2008. He brought with him a plan to turn around the business and "put the sparkle back into Orange". This plan included halting the outsourcing of customer service staff to India and bringing them back to the UK, he invested in the retail estate, refitting stores to a high standard and expanding the estate, improving the performance of both the mobile and fixed networks and finally, refreshing the Orange brand with the "together we can do more" campaign.
No citations at all here. And yet an actual quote!
In September 2009, T-Mobile decided to merge its UK operations with Orange UK to become EE Limited. He became the first Chief Executive in 2010.[4] EE at the time had 28m customers. EE is headquartered in Hertfordshire. Richard Moat, the former Chief Executive of T-Mobile UK, became Chief Operation Officer of EE.
One citation which leads to a paywall. This could be a legitimate reference which conforms all these facts; but in view of what's gone above it would be silly to assume this. WP:V
Alexander is married with two children.
No citation.