Richard Frank Moat (born 8 September 1954) is a British business executive who is the

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Early life

He went to King Edward VI Grammar School in

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. He has an MA Honours degree in Law from

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. He is a Fellow of the

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, and has a Diploma in Corporate Finance and Accounting from the

London Business School London Business School (LBS) is a business school and a constituent college of the federal University of London. LBS was founded in 1964 and awards post-graduate degrees (Master's degree, Master's degrees in management and finance, Master of B ...

Career

Moat worked in the Lloyd’s insurance market from 1977 to 1978, and as an analyst at Sedgwick from 1979 to 1980. From 1980 to 1992, Moat worked at the USX/Marathon Group. From 1992 to 1998, he was corporate finance director at Orange plc. From 1998 to 2000, he was the international group director of finance at Orange. From 2000 to 2002, he was the chief executive of Orange Thailand. He was then chief executive of Orange Denmark A/S from 2002 to 2004. In 2004, he became chief executive of

Orange Romania Orange România is a broadband internet service, Internet service provider and mobile provider in Romania. It is Romania's largest GSM network operator which is majority owned by Orange S.A. that also uses some of the Telekom Romania Mobile, Tel ...

. In 2009, he became the Managing Director of

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UK Ltd. In 2010, he became Deputy Chief Executive and Chief Financial Officer of Everything Everywhere Ltd, the leading mobile operator in the UK. In August 2012, he was appointed Chief Financial Officer of

Eir (telecommunications) Eircom Limited, trading as Eir ( ; stylised eir), is a large fixed, mobile and broadband telecommunications company in Ireland. The company, which is currently incorporated in Jersey, traces its origins to Ireland's former state-owned monopol ...

. In November 2014, he became the Chief Executive Officer Eir and served in this role until April 2018. From April 2018 to April 2021 he was a Non Executive Director of Eir. In 2019, Moat was appointed Chief Executive Officer of

Technicolor SA Vantiva SA (formerly Technicolor SA, Thomson SARL, Thomson SA, and Thomson Multimedia) is a French multinational corporation that provides technology products and services for the communication, media and entertainment industries. Headquarter ...

following the resignation of Frederic Rose. In September 2022, Technicolor Creative Studios SA was spun off from Technicolor SA to create a separate public limited company. The remaining Technicolor SA business was renamed Vantiva SA. Moat stood down as CEO, and has become Chairman of Vantiva SA. From July 2012 to April 2021, Moat was a non executive director of International Personal Finance plc, becoming Senior Independent Director and Chair of the Audit Committee.

Personal life

Richard is married to Mary. They each have two children from previous marriages.

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Living people Alumni of St Catharine's College, Cambridge Alumni of London Business School British technology chief executives British telecommunications industry businesspeople Chief financial officers Deutsche Telekom English chief executives Orange S.A. People from Nuneaton 1954 births {{Romania-business-bio-stub