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.
Tony Wood (British businessman) Tony Wood (British businessman) Antony Wood (born April 1966) is a British businessman, and the CEO of Meggitt PLC since January 2018, when he succeeded Stephen Young, having previously been chief operating officer (COO). Wood earned a bachelor's degree in engineering from the Open University, and an MBA from INSEAD. Wood spent 16 years working for the French company Messier-Dowty, now part of the Safran Group. From May 2013 to January 2016, Wood was president of the aerospace division of Rolls-Royce Holdings. According to the "Evening Standard", Wood's departure from Rolls-Royce following a restructuring "seemed an abrupt end to a