Maarssen, May 24, 2022 - Today, Alex Goldblum received the prestigious Charles Kao Award at the FttH Conference 2022 in Vienna. The Charles Kao Award honors an individual who has made an outstanding life-long achievement and contribution to promoting full fibre connectivity. The ceremony was hosted by Eric Festraets, President of the FttH Council Europe.
About Alex Goldblum
Alex Goldblum (1975) is a well-known leader in the European fiber-optic and telecom industries. In 2006, he joined Eurofiber and became its Chief Executive Officer in 2007. This has turned out to be the start of a long, successful and still continuing journey, in which Alex has led the growth of the organization from start up, through scale up, to an established European market leader. Alex combines deep knowledge and expertise of the market and operations with an excellent M&A strategy to back-up organic growth. He fine-tuned Eurofiber’s company philosophy of open access networks as a driver for innovation and prosperity, a model that has not only proved to be successful economically, but that is nowadays also accepted as the most sustainable way in which digital connectivity can be realized. To date, 15 years after Alex’ start at Eurofiber, the company multiplied its network, which now counts 61,700 kilometers and grows with over 40 kilometers a week.