Our people
Click on the links below to read about T-Mobile's directors.
| Chief Executive Officer | Jim Hyde |
| Sales Director | Gordon Ballantyne |
| Legal Director | James Blendis |
| Marketing Director | Phil Chapman |
| Technical Director | Emin Gurdenli |
| HR Director | Mark Martin |
| IS Director | Dirk Rohweder |
| Finance Director | Lars Nordmark |
| Director of Sales Operations | Dirk Woessner |
Jim Hyde
Chief Executive Officer
Jim Hyde moved to T-Mobile UK in January 2006 from T-Mobile USA, where he held a number of leadership positions, including Vice President of Sales and Operations.
He has over 10 years experience in the mobile world, with particular expertise in finance, operations, sales and service. T-Mobile USA has been recognised in the last six years as being number one in customer service, regularly winning the J.D Power's annual award for customer satisfaction. Since his arrival in the UK, T-Mobile has launched the hugely successful Flext plan and led the industry on mobile internet and mobile broadband. The company was recently voted Consumer Operator of the Year 2007 by a panel of its peers, on the back of its success with products such as Flext and web'n'walk.
Educated at Arizona State University, Jim is based at our head office in Hatfield, Hertfordshire.
Gordon Ballantyne
Sales & Service Director
Gordon joined T-Mobile in October 2003 and is responsible for our Customer Service & Sales Organisation (CSSO) which includes all service and sales channels in the UK: Customer Service, Consumer and Business Sales Retail stores and our Online operation.
Prior to this, he held a number of international management roles, including CEO of Pulse International (a venture capital funded technology company based in Australia), a Partner with Dell Ventures (the $1.2 billion venture capital arm of Dell Corporation) and Founder & Director of dell.com in Europe which grew to a $5 billion business.
James Blendis
Legal Director
James joined T-Mobile in 1998 after specialising in IT/New Media law in a city law firm. He has previously acted as Deputy General Counsel in the UK and Head of Marketing Legal Services for T-Mobile International. He is Company Secretary to the Board of T-Mobile UK and Chairman of the Risk Committee. James is responsible for the Legal Department, with around 25 lawyers, and also the Government Services Team. James has an M.Phil from Cambridge University and is a qualified solicitor.
Phil Chapman
Marketing Director
Phil joined T-Mobile in Jan 2005 from Unilever, a major consumer brand company, where he has spent the last 23 years in a variety of senior Marketing roles for different Unilever companies both here in the UK, as well as in Dubai, Singapore and Egypt.
His most recent role has been as Global Brand Director for Lipton, one of Unilever's largest brands. He played an integrated part in establishing an international joint venture with PepsiCo to form the "Pepsi Lipton Partnership" to market Lipton soft drinks around the world.
Emin Gurdenli
Technical Director
Emin has been with T-Mobile since 1990 when he played a pivotal role in the early radio and cellular networks.
His wealth of network experience has been built from his ongoing contributions across development, service operations, engineering and planning.
Today as Technical Director he oversees the entire network operation of plan, build, operate and maintain, as well as having international responsibilities to the T-Mobile Global group.
He has a Bachelor of Engineering from the University of Sheffield, UK and is married with two sons.
Mark Martin
HR Director
Mark joined T-Mobile in September 2006, from Geest, the largest chilled food manufacturing company in the world.
He spent a total of 14 years with them, with the last 8 as Group HR Director. Prior to this he worked at Unilever in a variety of HR and Marketing roles.
He has a BSc in Managerial and Administrative Studies from Aston University and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development. Mark is married with two children
Dirk Rohweder
IS Director
Dirk joined in February 2005 after spending almost four years managing T-Mobile Germany's business information systems.
With more than 15 years senior IT and logistics experience, his current focus is providing UK systems that enable simplicity in the way customers are billed and serviced.
Educated at the Technical University Darmstadt, he has a Masters and PhD in Business Data Processing.
Dirk is married with three Children and based at our head office in Hatfield, Hertfordshire.
Lars Nordmark
Finance Director
Lars joined T-Mobile UK in 2007 from T-Mobile Austria where he served as a key member of the senior team and played an integral role in the TeleRing acquisition.
Prior to joining T-Mobile Austria, Lars was responsible for setting up the Functional Controlling group for T-Mobile in Western Europe, and was a key member of the international finance organisation in Bonn.
Before joining T-Mobile in March 2003, Lars spent nearly nine years with Orange at the operational level where he was, among other things, Finance Director in Denmark and Sweden.
A native of Sweden, Lars was educated in the US where he gained his MBA from the University of Iowa, while also playing tennis on scholarship.
Dirk Woessner
Director of Sales Operations
Dirk has been with T-Mobile UK since August 2006 where he joined from T-Mobile International. As Director of Sales Operations he is steering the companys market invest budget and is responsible for terminal procurement, supply chain operations and trade marketing.
Prior to this, he held various roles in sales and operations at T-Mobile International and T-Mobile Germany. In his previous role as Executive Vice President for the Operating and Programme office at T-Mobile International, Dirk led the two year groupwide "Save for growth" efficiency program from concept to full realization with a € 1.6 bn annual savings. Before joining T-Mobile, Dirk worked as consultant for McKinsey & Company in Germany and Spain focussing on the Telecoms and High-Tech sector.
He was educated in Munich at the Technical University and holds a PhD in Chemistry from Humboldt University in Berlin. Dirk is married with four children.
