Stan

Stan Miller has over 30 years of experience in the start-up, successful turnaround and running of companies in both the telecommunication and media industries (TMT) - experienced executive - CEO, NED, INED of listed companies on JSE, NYSE, MOEX, AEX, NASDAQ bourses. He has served as a member of & has a deep experience in audit, risk, compliance, strategy, remuneration and nomination, ESG committees of boards.
From 2016 he is member of the board of MTN Group (South Africa) the largest telecommunication company in Africa - JSE listed - 280 million subscribers - member strategy, risk, ESG, corporate governance committees; From June 2022 he is a member of the board VEON Ltd Telecom operator – 220 million subs (NASDAQ /AEX) member of Strategy & Nomco, Remco committees; He is also CEO & Owner of Athena Investment Holdings SPF SA (Luxembourg); Leaderman NV (Belgium); Leaderman SARL (Luxembourg); Investor, shareholder & director of other own private companies. Senior advisor to PE / Hedge funds in TMT sector.
From 2010- 2019 he was a member of the board MTS OJSC- NY / MOEX listed, where he also served on Audit /Risk, Nomco/Remco & Strategy committees. From 2011-2016 he was Executive Chairman, director and minority shareholder of AINMT AB / ICE Group a telecom operator in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Indonesia & Brazil (later listed on Oslo Stock Exchange after split of international operations) - majority owned by Access Industries.
From 1999 till 2010 he was a member of the board of Royal KPN, CEO KPN Mobile and CEO of the Mobile International Business. He was responsible for the sale of non- core assets when KPN faced a financial ruin in 2000. He was responsible for the successful turnaround in The Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, and building new businesses (MVNO) in France, Spain. He introduced a “Challenger” strategy & business model as Chairman of E-Plus (Germany) and BASE (Belgium) where he introduced – changed the business model, creating significant value of Euro 12 billion for KPN and its’ shareholders from basically bankrupt businesses. He also served as Chief Executive Officer & chairman of BASE N.V. in Belgium, a company that he successfully launched as KPN- Orange in 1998.
From 1991 – 1997 prior to joining KPN he held leading positions in the pan-European Pay TV operator Nethold (DSTV, MultiChoice) a joint venture between MNET & Richemont. His last assignment being as Chief Executive Officer of its operations in Italy, where the first European digital satellite offering was launched at Telepiu . Nethold was sold to Vivendi / Canal Plus in 1997. Prior to 1991 he held several senior management positions at M-Net / DSTV / MultiChoice Electronic Media pay television in South Africa (part of NASPERS - PROSUS) and was one of the founding executives of MNET in South Africa and General manager of its operations in South Africa – relocating to Europe in 1991 to join Nethold.
Stan has a deep understanding of different cultures & the diversity of running businesses across Europe, Africa and beyond and the impact that has on business. In Europe he has lived and worked in Italy, The Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Greece, Norway, Sweden and Denmark. He also has a deep understanding of emerging markets in Africa, Eastern Europe and beyond.
He has both Belgian & South African nationalities and is a Luxembourg resident.