Gareth Williams

CEO

Gareth Williams became CEO of Interoute in August 2007. Prior to that he served as President Global Markets building the sales and marketing unit of Interoute across the 22 countries in which Interoute now operates. He joined Interoute to aid James Kinsella with the restructuring of the company in 2002 and has overseen the growth of Interoute from zero revenues Jan-03 to €190m in Dec-07. On taking over as CEO he has managed the transition of Interoute from a loss making start-up into an operationally profitable business. 

Before joining Interoute Gareth held senior positions in the telecoms and IT services sector, ranging from high-tech start-up to major telco joint ventures. Gareth spent the first 13 years of his career in BT and was privileged to play a part in the globalisation of telecommunications. He has lived in the USA & Europe managing national, regional and global business units with operations in every continent of the world.