Severina Pascu, the Chief Operating Officer of UPC Switzerland, will succeed Eric Tveter as CEO from 1 September, the cable operator announced. After nine years heading the Swiss company, Tveter will continue to serve as Chairman of UPC Switzerland as well as be responsible for Liberty Global’s operations in Eastern Europe.
In the course of the recently announced sale of several Liberty Global country operations to Vodafone and the separation of UPC Switzerland and UPC Austria, the decision was taken to simplify the organisational structure of UPC. Pascu, previously COO of UPC Switzerland and the operations in Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Romania, Slovakia and Luxembourg, will focus fully on the Swiss business in her new role, together with the UPC management team. Meanwhile, Tveter will continue to lead the businesses in Eastern Europe as CEO and will oversee strategic planning and stakeholder relations in Switzerland.
Pascu has held several senior leadership positions and has been responsible for the operational business of various Liberty Global companies over the last ten years and is very familiar with the Swiss market, acting as COO of UPC Switzerland since December 2017. In her new role, she will report directly to Liberty Global CEO Mike Fries and also to Tveter.
