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
USS Snook (SSN-592) USS Snook (SSN-592) USS "Snook" (SSN-592), a "Skipjack"-class submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the common snook, an Atlantic marine fish that is bluish-gray above and silvery below a black lateral line. Her keel was laid down by Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Mississippi, on 7 April 1958. She was launched on 31 October 1960, sponsored by Mrs. George L. Walling, mother of Commander John F. Walling, who was commanding officer of the first "Snook" (SS-279) when she was lost in action in World War II. "Snook" was commissioned on 24 October 1961