Allison Kirkby

Group President & CEO, Tele2 Group

Allison has been with Tele2 since 2014, when she joined the company as Group CFO. In September 2015, she was appointed Group President and CEO. Prior to joining Tele2, Allison spent 25 years in FMCG, Media, Telecom, and retail businesses. She was most recently the CFO of Shine Group, the global media production company and a part of 21st Century Fox. Prior to this Allison was Virgin Media’s Executive Director of Finance Operations and Transformation, which succeeded a successful two decades with Procter & Gamble in a variety of senior financial and operational roles. Allison is also an Independent Non-Executive Director and Audit Chair at Greggs PLC, the UK retailer, and she is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants. 

Tele2 in brief
TELE2 is one of Europe’s fastest growing telecom operators, always providing customers with what they need for less. We have 13 million customers in 9 countries. Tele2 offers mobile services, fixed broadband and fixed telephony, data network services, content services and M2M/IoT solutions. Ever since Jan Stenbeck founded the company in 1993, it has been a tough challenger to the former government monopolies and other established providers. Tele2 has been listed on the NASDAQ OMX Stockholm since 1996. In 2013, we had net sales of SEK 26 billion and reported an operating profit (EBITDA) of SEK 6 billion.