As CEO of Openreach Limited, Clive is responsible for leading the UK’s largest digital infrastructure company and supporting more than 680 Communications Providers to connect more than 22 million customers throughout the country. Under his leadership, Openreach is building a new, more reliable and future-proof ‘full fibre’ national broadband network, with an ambition to reach 25 million premises by December 2026.

Clive is an Honorary Colonel of 81 Signal Squadron (Army Reserve) and one of Britain’s leading telecoms and digital infrastructure experts, with more than 30 years’ experience in the sector. In June 2021, he was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s birthday honours list 2021, for services to telecommunications industry during the Coronavirus pandemic.