His held senior positions at Dixons, Bass PLC and was the founder of Freeserve, Europe's first dotcom IPO, listing on the London Stock Exchange a year after start-up at a valuation of £1.5Bn. After the sale of Freeserve to France Telecom he was asked by Archie Norman and a consortium of banks to lead the turnaround of Energis after its financial collapse. In 2006, after 4 years the business was sold to Cable and Wireless with restored growth, profitability and cashflow. On acquisition Pluthero became the CEO of Cable and Wireless's non-incumbent businesses to perform a similar turnaround to those businesses. Over four years profitability had improved by >£500m and cashflow by >£700m.
In 2011 Pluthero became Group CEO to prepare the businesses for demerger of the Cable and Wireless group. On demerger Pluthero became the Chairman of Cable and Wireless Worldwide.
Pluthero has subsequently advised on several start-ups in the tech space and has held chairman and Board positions at Essensys, CODE Investing and MyAppConverter.
He founded an Art charity, Abstract Critical, with renowned British sculptor Robin Greenwood.
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^"Meet Mr. Freeserve", The Independent, 30 June 1999. Retrieved 23 April 2020.
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john, pluthero, born, 1964, british, businessman, born1964, chelmsford, ukoccupationformer, cable, wireless, worldwideborn, chelmsford, essex, 1964, pluthero, educated, colchester, royal, grammar, school, graduated, with, first, economics, from, london, school. John Pluthero born 1964 is a British businessman John PlutheroBorn1964 age 58 59 Chelmsford UKOccupationFormer CEO of Cable amp Wireless WorldwideBorn in Chelmsford Essex in 1964 Pluthero was educated at Colchester Royal Grammar School and graduated with a First in Economics from the London School of Economics On graduating he joined the accounting firm Coopers and Lybrand and qualified as a Chartered Accountant three years later He later worked for P amp O and served as director of the Chelsea Harbour development 1 His held senior positions at Dixons Bass PLC and was the founder of Freeserve Europe s first dotcom IPO listing on the London Stock Exchange a year after start up at a valuation of 1 5Bn After the sale of Freeserve to France Telecom he was asked by Archie Norman and a consortium of banks to lead the turnaround of Energis after its financial collapse In 2006 after 4 years the business was sold to Cable and Wireless with restored growth profitability and cashflow On acquisition Pluthero became the CEO of Cable and Wireless s non incumbent businesses to perform a similar turnaround to those businesses Over four years profitability had improved by gt 500m and cashflow by gt 700m In 2011 Pluthero became Group CEO to prepare the businesses for demerger of the Cable and Wireless group On demerger Pluthero became the Chairman of Cable and Wireless Worldwide Pluthero has subsequently advised on several start ups in the tech space and has held chairman and Board positions at Essensys CODE Investing and MyAppConverter He founded an Art charity Abstract Critical with renowned British sculptor Robin Greenwood References edit Meet Mr Freeserve The Independent 30 June 1999 Retrieved 23 April 2020 nbsp This article about a British businessperson born in the 1960s is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title John Pluthero amp oldid 1183459318, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
