Gareth Williams joined Gigaclear in February 2019 as Chief Executive Officer, following 17 years (11 as Chief Executive) at Interoute, one of Europe’s largest independent fibre networks. In 2020, he joined the Board of Neos Networks as non-executive director.

With a wealth of experience in telecoms and IT behind him, Gareth has operated across all continents and sold into consumer, business and wholesale markets. At Gigaclear, in the past three years Gareth has overseen a trebling of both the homes passed and the customer base, making Gigaclear the largest rural fibre infrastructure provider after BT.

Under Gareth’s leadership at Interoute, the business evolved into one of Europe’s largest Cloud Services infrastructure platforms, with revenues growing from €188 million to €710 million. Gareth left Interoute having led the sale of the company to GTT Communications Inc. for $2.1billion.

Prior to becoming Interoute CEO, Gareth was President of Global Sales at the company, having spent the previous 15 years in telecoms and IT.