Tom Alexander (businessman)Thomas Simon Alexander is a British businessman and former chief executive of Orange and T-Mobile.Early lifeAlexander attended Millfield, the independent school, as a day scholar from 1971-75.CareerVirgin MobileAlexander set up and founded Virgin Mobile, which was launched in November 1999 with his colleague from BT Cellnet, Jo Steel. He left Virgin Mobile in 2006.EEIn 2007 Alexander became CEO of Orange UK and in September 2009 he was informed by his parent company of a plan to merge Orange UK and T-Mobile UK to form EE Limited. He became the first Chief Executive of EE.Personal lifeAlexander is twice married and has two children.