Our management team

Simon has 30 years of experience working with Telecom, Media and Technology (TMT) companies. Before joining CityFibre, Simon was a partner at Goldman Sachs where he spent 18 years in London and New York. There he held senior roles in the Investment Banking division including Global Chief Operating Officer and Vice-Chairman of EMEA as well as a number of leadership roles in the TMT banking team.

Prior to joining Goldman, Simon worked for Baring Brothers in London and Hong Kong. He is a fellow of the institute of chartered accountants, qualifying with Coopers and Lybrand. He is a graduate of Imperial College, London.

Prior to joining CityFibre, Nick served the prior ten years as CFO at Gatwick Airport. Prior to that, he worked with Anglo American plc and with Centrica plc in a number of senior finance roles, including Director of Group M&A, Finance Director for Centrica Energy as well as Finance Director for British Gas Business.

Nick also brings more than ten years’ experience in investment banking, with the majority of that time spent specialising in the infrastructure sector. Working on acquisitions, IPOs and financing transactions in the UK and internationally, he has advised both governments and private investors.

Polly is one of the UK’s leading experts in telecoms regulation. She joins from Ofcom’s senior management team after 15 years as its General Counsel. In the role, Polly led the UK regulator’s legal group, providing advice across all policy areas. Prior to this role, Polly was Head of the EC and UK Competition Law Department at the global law firm Dentons.

Sarah Malin is the Director of Group Operations and Programme Management [Office] at CityFibre, the UK’s third national network. She is accountable for all technical and delivery operations, including Architecture, Design, Build, Service, Network, and Field Operations.

Sarah has over 20 years of experience in the telecom sector, having held senior roles in operations, strategy, transformation, and enterprise customer delivery at INS, Cable and Wireless, and Vodafone Group.

Rob is Chief Strategy Officer for CityFibre, leading CityFibre’s strategy, product, business development and M&A activities. Rob is also ESG champion for CityFibre leading the responsible business strategy. He joined CityFibre in 2012 as part of the early executive team and has led the commercial development of the business, including key customer partnerships and acquisitions.

Rob has more than 20 years of experience in growing infrastructure-based telecoms, media and technology companies. These included roles as Enterprise Director and Strategy Director at Arqiva, the largest broadcast and tower infrastructure operator in the UK as well as being a NED on the board of YouView. Before that, he was in the investment banking team at Macquarie and led Corporate Development at IT provider Logicalis.

George has over 22 years of experience in the fixed line and mobile sectors. This included 15 years at Virgin Media Business where he built an industry-leading commercial team and transformed the mobile backhaul market through a £100million national backhaul deal with MBNL. He left Virgin Media Business to become UK Sales Director for Telecity Group in 2014 (now Equinix) and joined CityFibre as Sales Director in 2017. He was promoted to Chief Sales Officer in 2021 and to Chief Commercial Officer in 2025.

Francis has over 30 years’ experience in HR, across manufacturing, telecoms, oil & gas engineering and construction, FMCG and logistics. Before joining CityFibre as Group HR Director at the end of 2018, he was Group HR Director with Low & Bonar PLC. Having moved from Unilever, where he was VP HR for both R&D and Foods, as well as being a member of the global HR leadership team. Francis has also held senior HR leadership roles within Motorola, Foster Wheeler and Royal Mail Group.

He has consistently deployed HR strategy and operations to successfully build and sustain diverse organisations within high growth environments.

Francis is a certified coach, NLP practitioner – and a graduate of Queen Mary, University of London.