When he was nominated for a board seat earlier this summer, KPN noted that Shuter would bring "valuable knowledge and expertise" to the board. Aside from his previous executive role at BT between 2021 and 2023, Shuter's experience in telecom includes serving at the helm of MTN Group, Vodafone's Europe Cluster and Vodafone Netherlands, and as the CFO of Vodacom South Africa. Shuter's departure from BT was announced at the end of 2022, when the UK operator merged its BT Enterprise and BT Global units to form the BT Business division – see BT merges units to form BT Business and save £100m. And Huawei has announced that Sabrina Meng (aka Meng Wanzhou) is back at the helm at Huawei, as the vendor's CFO is the latest to take on the role of rotating and acting chair (from 1 October 2024 to 31 March 2025).