Hans Snook and in 2001 Snook stepped down as a special advisor to Orange. His public involvement since then in the UK telecoms industry was as Chairman of Carphone Warehouse, between 2002 and 2005 and on stepping down from this post he was appointed non-executive chairman of Monstermob Group Plc, the ringtone company. Hans Snook Hans Roger Snook (born 26 May 1948) is a businessman, best known for his time as the founder, with Graham Howe and Chief Executive of UK mobile phone company Orange. He was born to a German mother and a British father, and grew up in Vancouver, British
Peter Parker (British businessman) Peter Parker (British businessman) Sir Peter Parker KBE LVO (30 August 1924 – 28 April 2002) was a British businessman and chairman of the British Railways Board from 1976 to 1983. Parker was born in France on 30 August 1924 but spent part of his childhood in Shanghai where his father worked for an oil company. The family were evacuated from China in 1937, and while his father went to work in Africa, his mother and the rest of the family settled in Bedford, England, where he attended Bedford School. After leaving school, he won a scholarship to study Japanese