Shane O’NEILL
Senior Vice President, Chief Strategy Officier, Liberty Global
President Chellomedia

PLENARY SESSIONS- 24, november 2005

As Chief Strategy Officer of Liberty Global, Shane O’Neill oversees the company’s strategic planning, mergers and acquisitions and corporate development activities. In addition, Shane is responsible for the development of chellomedia, Liberty Global’s content and services division. Under Shane’s guidance, chellomedia also invests in third-party cable operators and TV channels.
Shane joined the company in 1999 as Managing Director of Corporate Development and Mergers & Acquisitions. He was appointed to his present positions in April 2002 and January 2003 respectively.
During his tenure, he has been instrumental in determining and executing the strategy that has resulted in the highly-successful turnaround of UPC Broadband which comprises Liberty Global’s core European cable businesses.
From 1997 to 1999, Shane was an Executive Director in the Advisory Group for Goldman Sachs in London where he was responsible for providing advice on mergers and acquisitions as well as corporate finance to a number of companies in the media and communications industry, including UPC. Prior to this, Shane worked at Goldman Sachs in its New York, Sydney and London offices.
Before joining Goldman Sachs, Shane spent four years at Macquarie Bank in Sydney and three years at KPMG in Dublin where he qualified as a Chartered Accountant. He received a Law degree from Trinity College Dublin.
Shane is an advisor to INSEAD’s Media and Technology Board.
About Liberty Global, Inc.
Liberty Global owns interests in broadband distribution and content companies operating outside the continental United States, principally in Europe, Asia, and the Americas. Through its subsidiaries and affiliates, Liberty Global is the largest broadband cable operator outside the U.S. in terms of subscribers. Based on the Company’s consolidated operating statistics at June 30, 2005 (other than NTL Ireland which we consolidate but do not control), Liberty Global’s networks passed approximately 23.5 million homes and served approximately 14.9 million revenue generating units, including approximately 10.7 million video subscribers, 2.5 million broadband Internet subscribers and 1.8 million telephone subscribers.

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