Liberty
LIBERTY CAREER
Miranda has worked for 3 decades with John Malone, Chairman of the Liberty group of companies. The Liberty family is one of the most entrepreneurial media and telecoms groups in the world, renowned for exceptional technological and financial innovation.
When she retired from her executive career at Liberty in 2011 Miranda was invited by Dr Malone to join the Board of Directors of Liberty Global, and since 2017 has also served as a Member of the Board of Liberty Latin America.
FROM THE UK TO DENVER: “THERE IS THE PLANET, GO TELL ME WHAT WE CAN DO”
Miranda began her cable career in the UK in the late 1980s, drafting cable franchise applications, working on the launch of the first competitive voice telephony service to BT, and developing content channels including The Parliamentary Channel.
In 1992 Miranda was asked to join the TCI International start-up team in Denver, and given one of the most exciting professional challenges one could imagine by John Malone : “There is the planet, go tell me what we can do”!
During her 20 year executive career spanning TCI, Liberty Media International and Liberty Global, Miranda was a key player in the growth of Liberty’s international portfolio. Today in her capacity as a director of Liberty Global plc she oversees Liberty’s European assets, including VMO2 in the UK.
Liberty Latin America is a fast-growing broadband player with a portfolio of businesses covering Latin America and the Caribbean, ranging from VTR in Chile to Liberty Puerto Rico.
LIBERTY IN JAPAN
Miranda’s most significant executive achievement at Liberty was the creation and oversight between 1993 and 2010 of arguably one of the all-time most successful Anglo-Japanese joint ventures.
The J:COM partnership between Liberty and Sumitomo Corporation built digital broadband network passing 13 million Japanese homes, and also launched and operated 16 Japanese cable and satellite channels.
Miranda oversaw the public listing of J:COM on Jasdaq in 2005, and is one of the few Western women ever to serve as effective Chair of a Japanese public company.
In the winter of 2009 Miranda led the sale of Liberty’s 38% stake in J:COM to the mobile operator KDDI in one of the fastest transactions in Japanese corporate history. The cash consideration of $US4 billion crystallised a total equity value of the Japanese JV of nearly $US14 billion, an average return on investment over 17 years of 22% per annum.