Stan Miller is Group CEO of United Group. He has more than 30 years’ experience across the telecommunications and media (TMT) sectors – building, turning around and running businesses in both – and has served as chief executive, executive chairman and non-executive and independent director of companies listed on the Johannesburg, New York, Moscow, Amsterdam, Oslo and NASDAQ exchanges.

Miller began his TMT career in pay-television in South Africa, where he was one of the founding executives of M-Net and General Manager of its South African operations, holding senior positions across the M-Net, DStv and MultiChoice businesses (part of Naspers/Prosus). In 1991 he moved to Europe to join Nethold, the pan-European pay-television operator formed as a joint venture between M-Net and Richemont. As Chief Executive of its Italian business he launched the first European digital satellite television offering, at Telepiù. Nethold was sold to Vivendi/Canal+ in 1997.

He joined KPN in 1998, launching BASE in Belgium as KPN-Orange that year and going on to serve as CEO of KPN Mobile and of the group’s Mobile International business, as well as on the board of Royal KPN from 1999 to 2010. When KPN faced financial ruin in 2000, he led the disposal of non-core assets and the turnaround that followed. As Chairman of E-Plus in Germany and BASE in Belgium, he led the transformation of two effectively bankrupt operations into businesses worth some €14 billion to KPN and its shareholders.

From 2011 to 2016 he was Executive Chairman, director and minority shareholder of AINMT / ICE Group, a telecommunications operator across Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Indonesia and Brazil, majority-owned by Access Industries and later listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange.

Alongside his operating roles, Miller has spent more than 25 years as a director of listed companies, with deep governance experience across audit, risk, compliance, remuneration, nomination and ESG committees. He served as a director of MTS (listed in New York and Moscow) from 2010 to 2019 and of VEON (NASDAQ/Amsterdam) from 2022 to 2023, and sat on the board of MTN Group – Africa’s largest telecommunications company, with 340 million subscribers and listed in Johannesburg – from 2016 to 2026.