page_title: Graham Howe (businessman)
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Graham Howe (businessman) / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: Mobile phone evolution, respectively, from left to right: Motorola 8900X-2, Nokia 2146 orange 5.1, Nokia 3210, Nokia 3510, Nokia 6210, Ericsson T39, HTC Typhoon, iPhone 3G, Samsung Galaxy S4, Samsung Galaxy S4 mini, iPhone 5s, iPhone 6 Plus Русский: Эволюция мобильных телефонов
context_page_description: Graham Edward Howe is a British entrepreneur and businessman who founded Orange with Hans Snook.
context_section_description: Graham began his career at Touche Ross (now Deloitte LLP) working in the Manchester audit department. He became ACA qualified before moving down to London to work for Touche Ross Consulting.
  In the late 80s he moved to Hong Kong where he met Hans Snook whilst working at Hutchison Whampoa.
  Hans Snook had the ideas for Orange. However it was Graham Howe who would get the company off the ground. They met in 1992. Orange launched in April 1994. It floated on the London Stock Exchange and on the Nasdaq in April 1996.
  Howe and Snook's partnership helped take the company to unprecedented heights. Their partnership, as detailed in Sven-Goran Ericsson's book 'Leadership the Sven-Goran Eriksson way', was highly successful and was compared to that of Bill Gates and Paul Allen, Brian Clough and Peter taylor.
  In October 1999, Orange UK was bought for £21bn by Düsseldorf-based Mannesmann AG, then run by Klaus Esser. Howe and Snook reportedly earn't £29m and £45m respectively from the crystallisation of share options post acquisition.
  In early 2000, Vodafone bought Mannesmann in a hostile takeover, and Vodafone was forced to sell Orange UK, which was bought by France Telecom (now known since August 2000 as Orange S.A.) for £26bn.
  On 7 May 2002, Howe became Chief Operating Officer of Orange S.A. having been Chief Financial Officer of the Group (former France Telecom).
  He left as deputy Chief Executive of Orange S.A. on 24 March 2003 when Jean-François Pontal also retired as Chief Executive.
  In June 2003 he took up the role of Senior Non Executive Director of Cable & Wireless. A position he held for 3 years before moving to become Chairman of the global education technology company Promethean.
  Graham was Chairman of Promethean for 10 years before retiring in October 2015.
caption: Mobile phone evolution (on Orange networks)
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