{"id":10105,"date":"2025-01-14T10:08:22","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T10:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gsma.com\/about-us\/?post_type=gsma_theme_people&#038;p=10105"},"modified":"2025-01-14T10:08:24","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T10:08:24","slug":"mike-fries","status":"publish","type":"gsma_theme_people","link":"https:\/\/www.gsma.com\/about-us\/gsma_people\/mike-fries\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Fries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mike Fries is a co-founder of Liberty Global and Chief Executive Officer since 2005. Mr. Fries has overseen the company\u2019s growth into a world leader in converged broadband, mobile and video communications with operations established in 50 countries over the last 30 years.&nbsp; Today Liberty Global serves&nbsp;80 million fixed and mobile connections and generates $22 billion of revenue in Europe under some of the best-known consumer brands &#8212; including Virgin Media-O2 in the UK, VodafoneZiggo in The Netherlands, Telenet in Belgium and Virgin Media in Ireland. The company is also an active investor in cutting-edge infrastructure, content and technology businesses through its $3 billion investment portfolio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr. Fries serves as Chairman of Sunrise Communications in Switzerland and Liberty Latin America (both formerly 100% owned by Liberty Global), and is a board member of Lionsgate Entertainment, Lionsgate Studios Corp and Grupo Televisa S.A.B. In addition to several philanthropic boards and initiatives, he is a board member of Cable Labs, a trustee and finance committee member of the Paley Center for Media and an ICT Governor of the World Economic Forum. Mr. Fries holds a B.A. from Wesleyan University where he is an emeritus trustee and an M.B.A. from Columbia University where he currently serves on the board.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Fries is a co-founder of Liberty Global and Chief Executive Officer since 2005. 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