Parm Sandhu

Parm Sandhu (* 1968 in Birmingham , UK ) is a manager who gained notoriety for his involvement in the European telecommunications and media industries.

Life

Sandhu is a British citizen and grew up the son of Indian immigrants in Birmingham. His father, who came to England as a young man and worked as a factory worker, was unemployed for several years, which is why he asked Parm, then 16, to drop out of school. But the young Sandhu successfully continued his school education until graduation and was the first graduate of a state school to study at Cambridge University . He completed his studies in mathematics and physics with a BA honors degree .

He trained as an auditor at PricewaterhouseCoopers in London and then worked there for two years in the Transaction Support Group. He then worked for the cable company Telewest Communications before moving to Liberty Media , the company owned by US media mogul John Malone. On whose behalf Sandhu tried in 2002, the cable networks of Deutsche Telekom to buy. This billion dollar business failed at the German cartel office .

In 2003 he became CFO of the Hessian cable network operator iesy . In 2004 he was promoted to chairman of the board. Sandhu initiated a restructuring program at iesy, which subsequently enabled the takeover of the cable network operator ish in North Rhine-Westphalia and TeleColumbus. The company Unitymedia in Cologne with 1700 employees emerged from these companies in 2005 . Under the leadership of Parm Sandhu, Unitymedia was the first cable network operator to introduce the " Triple Play " bundle of Internet, telephone and TV in Germany. After the sale of Unitymedia to the international cable company Liberty Global Inc. (LGI) on January 28, 2010, Parm Sandhu resigned his mandate as CEO in order to pursue other professional goals, according to his own statement.

Parm Sandhu is a member of the board of ANGA, the national association of German cable network operators, and board member of Cable Europe, the European cable association. He is also a member of the supervisory board of Central European Media Enterprises (CME), one of the leading broadcasting groups in Central and Eastern Europe.

He has lived in Germany since 2003, most recently in Cologne.

Individual evidence

1. ^ "Malone comes, Sandhu goes" ( Memento from February 1, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Website Financial Times Deutschland