Catherine Colloms

Catherine is Director of Corporate Affairs and Brand and a member of the Executive Committee at Openreach, the UK’s broadband network. She also chairs Openreach's operational Northern Board Catherine was Corporate Affairs Director at Paddy Power from 2013–2016, and helped found the Senet Group, the first industry self-regulatory body. She was previously a director at Brunswick Group and in 2011 spent six months working on the BP Deepwater Horizon crisis. Catherine started her career at the Foreign Office where she worked on a range of crisis situations, including the Government’s humanitarian response to 9/11. She also led the development of the UK’s policy on Kosovo and was personal political adviser to Lord Ashdown, the High Representative for Bosnia, in Sarajevo. Catherine is a trustee of The Wiener Holocaust Library.