Former CEO of SoftBank Group International, Michel Combes has extensive experience in global telecommunications companies
São Paulo, November 7, 2022 – V.tal is pleased to announce the new member on its Board of Directors, French executive Michel Combes, former CEO of SoftBank Group International and has held positions in ministries in France, France Télécom and TéléDiffusion de France.
A graduate of École Polytechnique, Combes has extensive experience in the international telecommunications market: he served as CEO of Vodafone Europe and Alcatel-Lucent, as COO at Altice and CFO and CEO at Sprint until its merger with T-Mobile US.
Michel Combes oversaw SoftBank Group International’s operating and investment portfolios, including SoftBank LatAm Funds, until June this year. He sits on several boards of directors of SoftBank’s portfolio companies, including WeWork, Cybereason, Contentsquare, Jellysmack, Kavak, OneWeb, Sorare, Swile, TelevisaUnivision, Vestiaire Collective and now also V.tal.
The executive will join the other members of V.tal’s Board of Directors: Amos Genish, André Santos Esteves, Roberto Balls Sallouti, Renato Antonio Secondo Mazzola, André Fernandes Lopes Dias, Pedro Henrique Fragoso Pires de Azevedo Garcia, Kaue Augusto Silva, Eleazar de Carvalho Filho, Marcos Grodetzky and Rodrigo Modesto de Abreu.
About V.tal
V.tal is an end-to-end digital infrastructure solutions company and owner of the largest neutral fiber optic network in Brazil, serving telecom operators, internet providers and OTTs. The company has 18 million homes passed available to supply FTTH (Fiber To The Home), 430,000 kilometers of ground-based optical fiber, connecting more than 2,380 municipalities in Brazil, and 26,000 kilometers of subsea cables that connect Brazil to Argentina, Chile, Venezuela, Colombia, Bermuda and the United States, as well as edge data centers distributed between Brazil and Colombia. The company has an integrated portfolio of connectivity and infrastructure solutions and is controlled by BTG Pactual’s investment funds.
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