Graham Howe (businessman) Graham Howe (businessman) Graham Edward Howe (born 23 May 1961) is a British entrepreneur and businessman who founded Orange UK, with Hans Snook. He was born in St Albans. He went to St Albans Grammar School for Boys (now known since 1975 as the comprehensive Verulam School), and later attended the University of Birmingham where he obtained a Bachelor of Commerce. Hans Snook had the ideas for Orange in the UK, when it was originally owned by Hutchison Whampoa, who would later found Three. It was Graham Howe who would get the company off the ground. They met in 1992.
Homer Clyde Snook graduated from Allegheny College with a master of arts degree. In 1910, Ohio Wesleyan University conferred the honorary degree of Master of Science on Snook. From 1900 to 1901, Snook taught physics and chemistry in the high school for the Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans Home at Xenia, Ohio. From 1901 to 1902, he was assistant professor of chemistry at Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania. He worked as a salesman and electrical expert, with the James W. Queen & Company in Philadelphia, from 1902 until 1903. In 1903, Snook started development of a cross-arm, high-voltage rectifier switch. In 1903, while at