Liberty Global and Telefonica have signalled their intention to appoint Lutz Schüler as chief executive officer
of their proposed joint venture. Patricia Cobian will be chief financial officer. The companies are currently waiting on to approval by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) in the UK for the 50-50 joint venture combining Virgin Media and O2. Lutz Schüler joined Virgin Media in 2018 as Chief Operating Officer and has been CEO at Virgin Media since June 2019. Prior to that, Schüler spent more than seven years as CEO of Unitymedia GmbH, Liberty Global's German operation, which was sold to Vodafone in 2018.