Mary Turner - Chief Executive Officer
Mary Turner was appointed CEO of AlertMe.com Ltd in February 2010. Prior to this role, Mary was CEO of broadband company Tiscali UK from 2001, growing the company from less than half a million dial-up customers to the third largest DSL provider in the UK with 1.8m broadband customers and a revenue of €608m by 2008.
As CEO of Tiscali UK, Mary headed up the acquisitions of ISPs TinyOnline, Gateway and Dellnet in 2002, npower’s telephone base in 2003. During 2004 Tiscali became the fastest growing broadband provider in the UK after it launched the first broadband product for the same price as a dial-up subscription, making it affordable for the mass market.
Further acquisitions followed with Video Networks IPTV business (Homechoice) in 2006, The Pipex broadband and telephone business in 2007, before the sale of Tiscali UK to The TalkTalk Group, Part of The Carphone Warehouse Group, in 2009. Ms Turner has remained in an advisory capacity to the TalkTalk Group since the sale and is on the board of ASOS PLC.
During her time in the ISP industry Mary was General Manager UK (ISP and Portal) and Vice-President Marketing Europe for AOL Bertelsmann/CompuServe Information Services. In this role she developed and implemented the marketing strategy of CompuServe taking it to number one brand position. In 1999 she became CEO of LineOne, a joint venture between BT and United Media, leading the sale of this business to Tiscali SpA the Milan listed company in 2001.
Following the sale, she joined Tiscali UK as Managing Director of the Consumer Business, leading the integration of multiple operations already acquired by Tiscali, including WorldOnline and Liberty Surf. Mary became CEO of Tiscali UK in 2003 and was a member of the leadership team for the Tiscali Group.
Mary also has extensive consumer retail experience through senior management roles at Elizabeth Arden, Avon and the Innovations Group.