Group Board
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Meriel LenfesteyChair
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Joe MoynihanNon-Executive Director, Senior Independent Director & Chair of the Remuneration Committee
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Mark LamNon-Exective Director

Meriel Lenfestey
Meriel has experience driving and enabling a shift to customer centricity with forward looking companies across a wide range of business sectors. After receiving her MA from the Royal College of Art, and after spells working at Microsoft in Seattle and the BBC in London, in 1997 she founded a London based customer experience company and grew it to become the UK market leader and highly respected globally. Her work has included tactical and strategic engagements with clients embracing digital transformation across many sectors including Financial Services, Consumer Electronics & Software, Telecoms, Media, Retail, Transport, Energy and Public Sector. She chairs Gemserv (low carbon and energy) and is a Non-Executive Director for Boku (global digital payments), two FTSE 250 infrastructure funds and Aurigny Air Services in Guernsey. She holds voluntary governance roles with the Guernsey IoD and Art for Guernsey.

Joe Moynihan
Joe Moynihan is an experienced international financial services executive with senior level commercial and public sector experience. He has held a wide range of board level positions in Jersey and international businesses during a career that has spanned over 30 years. This includes being President of the Jersey Bankers Association, Chief Officer/Director of Financial Services for the States of Jersey and consultant to a number of financial services projects in Jersey and internationally. Joe has an MBA from the CASS Business School, University of London, is a fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants and a graduate of the Irish Institute of Bankers.

Mark Lam
Mark is a businessman and technologist, with many years of board experience in telecommunications and digital technology. He is the senior independent director of Games Workshop Group PLC, a FTSE 250 manufacturer, and a non-executive director of Lowland Investment Company PLC, a closed-end fund. He was previously Chief Technology and Information Officer of Openreach, responsible for the national architecture of the UK fibre network, and occupied senior management positions at BT Group, Siemens and Carphone Warehouse. He currently holds a number of public appointments in the UK, including as Chair of the Royal Free London hospital group, one of the largest hospital chains in Europe. Mark is Singaporean and studied at Oxford University.

Angus Flett
Angus has been the CEO of Smart Data Communications Company (DCC) since 2017. He has an extensive telecoms background, including roles in product management, marketing and service operations. As a Managing Director at BT, he was instrumental in the company achieving a world number one ranking for agent technical expertise and number two for agent responsiveness. He was also responsible for BT’s ISPco division, the fifth biggest white-label Internet Service Provider in the UK, running end-to-end services for EE, Vodafone, Post Office and SSE. As Senior Vice President of Vodafone’s Global Enterprise Products, Angus developed the company’s enterprise connectivity strategy and launched its global connectivity portfolio targeting SME and corporates, achieving revenue growth of 6% above market rates. Angus has a Masters degree in Business Management from the Henley Management College at the University of Reading and is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing.

Louise Easterbrook
Louise, is a senior financial professional with over 25 years’ experience in the telecoms industry, including board roles in both commercial and not for profit organisations. She has been the Chief Financial Officer of GSMA since 2014 where she is responsible for the business and financial performance of the association, which represents mobile network operators globally and hosts the world’s largest and most influential connectivity event, MWC. Louise is also the Treasurer of GSMA’s Mobile for Development Foundation Board, set up to oversee a wide range of activities where mobile technology can provide solutions to development challenges for underserved communities.
Her career has included several senior roles at Vodafone and Cable & Wireless, including Regional Financial Controller, Africa at Vodafone and Group Director, Investor Relations at Cable & Wireless. Louise is a qualified Chartered Accountant and has a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) degree from the University of Birmingham.

Daragh McDermott
Daragh joined JT from PwC Consulting’s London office where he specialised in the provision of strategic, economic and regulatory policy advice to clients in the telecommunications sector. Prior to that, Daragh spent 5 years with KPMG’s Dublin office working in its technology, media and telecommunications division.
Daragh is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants (“FCA”), a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators (“FCIS”), a Fellow of the Institute of Directors (“FIoD”) and a Chartered Director (“CDir”). He holds an honours degree in Business Studies from Dublin City University, a Diploma in Company Direction from the Institute of Directors, and a Graduate Diploma in Law from the College of Law, Guildford.

Hélène Narcy
Having joined JT in July 2019, Hélène was appointed as Chief Financial Officer in April 2020. A graduate of the French business school ESCP, she also holds the French accounting diploma DECF. Hélène brings more than 25 years’ experience, having held various senior finance positions across different industry types. She started her career with Gemalto (now part of Thales Group) and more recently spent ten years with UBS. Hélène has worked in different countries including the UAE, Jersey and the USA. Representing Finance in senior management committees, she led a number of finance transformation projects with a positive impact to the business.
Executive Committee
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Daragh McDermottChief Executive Officer
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Hélène NarcyChief Financial Officer
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Alessandro BovoneChief Technical Officer

Daragh McDermott
Daragh joined JT from PwC Consulting’s London office where he specialised in the provision of strategic, economic and regulatory policy advice to clients in the telecommunications sector. Prior to that, Daragh spent 5 years with KPMG’s Dublin office working in its technology, media and telecommunications division.
Daragh is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants (“FCA”), a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators (“FCIS”), a Fellow of the Institute of Directors (“FIoD”) and a Chartered Director (“CDir”). He holds an honours degree in Business Studies from Dublin City University, a Diploma in Company Direction from the Institute of Directors, and a Graduate Diploma in Law from the College of Law, Guildford.

Hélène Narcy
Having joined JT in July 2019, Hélène was recently appointed Finance Director and a member of the Executive Committee. A graduate of the French business school ESCP, she also holds the French accounting diploma DECF. Hélène brings more than 25 years’ experience, having held various senior Finance positions across different industry types. She started her career with Gemalto (now part of Thales Group) and more recently spent ten years with UBS. Hélène has worked in different countries including the UAE, Jersey and the USA. Representing Finance in senior management committees, she led a number of Finance transformation projects with positive impact to the business.

Alessandro Bovone
Alessandro has over 25 years experience in the telecom sector. He served in Siemens, Orange, FT, DT, EE, BT, ALU and Nokia with roles including Chief Technical Officer for North & West Europe for Nokia and Network Strategy Director for EE. He guided the creation of Nokia’s 2030 vision initiatives and was pivotal in bringing 5G to the UK and Ireland. He also developed Innovative services like Emergency Services Network, Air to Ground, Global IoT platform and more recently Private network and Security.
Born in Italy, he studied telecommunication engineering at the University of Genoa and hold a master’s in marketing & sales. Alessandro excels in building strategic business relationships, negotiating, and influencing decisions. His foresight and ability to challenge the status quo make him a trusted corporate advisor.

Sara McCarthy
Sara has over 20 years’ experience in the telecommunications industry. Her career at JT began in the Customer Accounts Team where she eventually became Head of Billing, before moving to the operations and network side of the business. As Chief Operations Officer Sara is responsible for the day-to-day administrative and operational functions of the business across the Channel Islands, as well as JT’s international customer and network operations.
Sara has a transformational leadership style with the ability to manage both technical and non-technical teams. With a focus and passion for operational excellence, Customer Experience, and process efficiency she is always seeking opportunities to develop strategies to improve operational practices and introduce improvement into business operations.
She is currently studying for her Chartered Director qualification with the IOD.

Kelvin Prescott
Kelvin joined JT after a successful career at O2 and VirginmediaO2 in executive roles across sales, commercial and business strategy. He drove the growth of O2 Business as it expanded from mobile into digital and ICT product lines, and subsequently led the integration of O2 and Virginmedia’s business divisions in 2021 – at the time the largest telco deal in UK history.
Prior to this he provided commercial, marketing and sales consultancy to clients across across the IT sector; firstly with PA Consulting and later established his own successful consulting firm. He has held advisory and non-exec roles with a number of startup technology firms and industry bodies, and is an accomplished speaker and presenter.
Kelvin is a Chartered IT Professional and holds a BA in Psychology from Liverpool University.