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.
Hans Gerling Hans Gerling Hans Gerling (born June 6, 1915 in Cologne, † August 14, 1991) was a German businessman who headed the Gerling Konzern, one of Europe's largest insurance groups, from 1949 until his death. He was the second of three sons of Auguste, b. Hoffmeister and Robert Gerling, founder of the Cologne-based Gerling insurance company. Hans Gerling joined the Gerling Konzern in 1937 and became CEO in 1949. After the death of Robert Gerling in 1935, management of the Gerling-Konzern, which was the largest privately owned insurance company in Europe, passed first to Walter Forstreuter, then to Hans Gerling's brother