Spark has looked to the UK for its latest executive appointment: Aliza Beckett, who will fill the role of strategy director after she relocates here in June.
The newly created position will expand Spark's top management team (or "leadership squad" as it's known in Agile-speak) to 10 - six of whom will be women once Beckett is on board. The telco is also notable in the diversity-challenged ICT sector for having three women on its board, which is chaired by Justine Smyth.
Beckett is currently based in London as VP, strategy for Liberty Global - a Nasdaq-listed multinational that formed from a mashup of US, European and Japanese cable TV, broadband and entertainment companies, which Spark says specialises "in converged broadband, video, and mobile communications, with significant investments in cutting-edge infrastructure, content, and technology ventures".
Before that, from 2017 to 2020, she was head of content, international expansion for Amazon Studios - the producer of the $1 billion adaption of Lord of the Rings whose first series, at least, was filmed in West Auckland (the series is due to stream on Amazon Prime Video from September).
