Andrew Rosenfeld, the co-founder and chairman of UK start-up MVNO The People’s Operator (TPO), has died aged 52.
Rosenfeld passed on 8 February following a short illness.
In an announcement to the stock exchange, TPO said: “The thoughts of…
Andrew Rosenfeld, the co-founder and chairman of UK start-up MVNO The People’s Operator (TPO), has died aged 52.
Rosenfeld passed on 8 February following a short illness.
In an announcement to the stock exchange, TPO said: “The thoughts of everybody involved with the company are with his family at this sad time.”
Rosenfeld was instrumental in getting Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales to invest in TPO and work with the company on an advisory basis.
In December, Wales told TelecomFinance that he had known Rosenfeld personally for 25 years and that the relationship was how he had become involved with TPO, which piggybacks on EE’s network and gives 10% of its customers’ bills to a cause of their choice.
TPO listed on AIM, London’s junior market, last November which raised £20m (US$31m) for the business, valuing it at £100m (US$157m).
Outside of telecoms, Rosenfeld was best known as a prominent donor to the UK Labour Party and co-founder of London-listed property investor Minerva.