Our People — Leadership

Leadership Team

Meet our management team, a diverse group of leaders with deep experience across telecoms, SaaS and services. Together, they bring distinct perspectives and expertise, united by a shared commitment to high performance, outstanding customer experience and a positive culture.

Peo Lehto
Peo Lehto
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
Sweden

Peo Lehto is CEO of VX Fiber and a firm believer that great businesses are built by great people, clear direction and a genuine understanding of customers. With more than 25 years of international leadership experience across telecoms and technology, he has spent his career bringing people together to navigate change, unlock growth and turn ambitious strategies into results.

Peo combines a global perspective with a practical, hands-on approach to leadership and a strong belief in openness, trust and accountability. At VX Fiber, his focus is simple: build a great team, create real value for customers and make fiber work better for everyone.

Andreas Diamant
Andreas Diamant
CHIEF ACCOUNTING OFFICER
Sweden

Andreas has been part of the company for over 10 years. He brings extensive experience in finance, accounting and corporate governance, having held finance roles across several industries, with a strong focus on turning financial insights into better business decisions.

At VX Fiber, Andreas focuses on building a strong and scalable finance function, creating transparency and supporting the business in delivering sustainable, profitable growth.

Based in Umeå, Andreas enjoys life in northern Sweden and spending time outdoors — fly fishing during the summer and skiing in the mountains with his family in winter.

Hanna Liman Jacobsson
Hanna Liman Jacobsson
CHIEF PEOPLE & CULTURE OFFICER
Sweden

Hanna Liman Jacobsson is Chief People & Culture Officer at VX Fiber, with extensive experience from the technology industry and a passion for building organizations where people and businesses can grow together.

Throughout her career, including leadership roles at global companies such as Atlas Copco and NTT Security, Hanna has worked at the heart of transformation, developing people, teams and organizations to meet changing business needs and turn strategy into action. She believes that strong organizations are built by bringing the right people together, creating clarity and trust, and giving them the opportunity to do great things.

At VX Fiber, her focus is on supporting the team as the company grows — ensuring the right people and capabilities are in place, while creating an environment where people can develop, contribute and make a real difference.

Cristina David
Cristina David
CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER
Sweden

Cristina David is Chief Operating Officer at VX Fiber, with more than 25 years of global leadership across manufacturing, enterprise software, telecoms and SaaS. Along the way she has industrialized large-scale delivery and built the talent, technology, data and AI capability that fast-growing international businesses run on.

At VX Fiber, her focus is on building the platform and the operation that can activate, serve and support many times today's volume, and on turning what it learns from running networks into new ways to extract value for network owners and their service providers.

A former radio and television producer and editor-in-chief, Cristina likes a live microphone, a concise deck and numbers that speak for themselves.

Jerry O’Leary
Jerry O’Leary
CHIEF PRODUCT OFFICER
Sweden

Jerry is Chief Product Officer at VX Fiber and a telecommunications leader with more than 15 years’ experience launching innovative products, complex systems and growth strategies across Europe and Asia.

His career spans engineering, consulting, sales, product management and operational transformation, including senior roles at Ericsson and GlobalConnect. Combining deep expertise in cloud, 5G, IP networking and OSS automation.

Equally comfortable with engineers and C-suite leaders, he is known for connecting strategy with execution and focus on progress rather than perfection, at VX his focus is to make it a global solution of choice for any fiber network operator or ISP.

Terese Holmqvist
Terese Holmqvist
GENERAL COUNSEL
Sweden

Terese has 25+ years of experience in commercial law in international settings, including 10+ years at law firms where she specialized in M&A and 10+ years as General Counsel for groups navigating multijurisdictional legal issues.

Terese’s focus is always on making the legal function support growth. She combines pragmatic advice with commercial understanding, helping the business manage risk, make confident decisions, and move forward.

Outside work, Terese enjoys traveling, working out, reading and spending time with family and friends. Colleagues also know her for her Monday hugs.

Jan Backman
Jan Backman
HEAD OF STRATEGIC MARKETS
Sweden

Jan as Head of Strategic Markets has 25+ years in international growth, marketing and commercial leadership roles, from scale-ups to global technology companies. Experienced in market expansion, go-to-market, partnerships and the European fiber industry.

At VX Fiber, he is passionate about turning strategy into commercial results—helping the company and its partners unlock new markets, build scalable business models and accelerate growth. A Stockholm School of Economics and CEMS graduate, he is happiest on water / snow, traveling, at the gym or outdoors with the dog—and generally prefers activities that involve moving rather than sitting still.

Chris Butler
Chris Butler
HEAD OF SOUTH AFRICA
South Africa

Chris is a seasoned leader with extensive management experience across diverse and demanding markets. He helps communication service providers define and execute their digital transformation strategies through the innovative use of Agentic AI and machine learning. With 36 years in the telecommunications and technology industry, Chris has worked extensively across the Middle East and Africa with 3Com, Cisco, Ericsson, IBM, CSG, and Nokia.

His primary focus is understanding each customer's challenges and opportunities, then finding innovative, creative solutions that help them meet their objectives for financial and technology leadership in their respective markets.

Outside of work, Chris enjoys playing golf and cooking.

Santiago Rodriguez
Santiago Rodriguez
HEAD OF NORTH AMERICA
United States of America

Santiago Rodriguez leads VX Fiber in North America. With more than two decades of experience across telecommunications, cloud technology, and software, he specializes in turning complex technology into practical business outcomes. His international career spans leadership roles in Europe and North America.

Santiago is passionate about helping fiber operators accelerate growth, simplify operations, and deliver exceptional customer experiences through scalable and robust technology solutions.

Originally from Spain, Santiago has lived and worked across multiple countries, speaks several languages, and is a strong believer that the best technology is the technology users hardly notice.