Orange man strengthens management team with former colleagues

Tom Alexander, the new CEO of Orange UK, has appointed three new people to his management team. Mr Alexander, who was CEO of Virgin Mobile, has hired Andrew Ralston, the former customer relations director at Virgin Mobile, to be his new chief operations officer. Former Virgin Mobile operations director Gerry McQuade becomes Orange UK’s chief development officer, with Steven Day, who’d been Virgin Mobile's head of corporate affairs, becoming Orange's chief of staff and communications. [Sources: Press release, Guardian.co.uk, Mobile News]