WILLEMSTAD - Experienced telecoms executive Danny Macaya has been appointed to the position of Country Manager for the Dutch Caribbean and will now lead the integration of Flow and United Telecommunication Services (UTS) in Curaçao, Bonaire, St. Maarten, St. Martin, St. Barths, St. Eustatius and Saba.

Aligning with a major priority for Liberty Latin America (LLA), he will also actively work with teams to establish the newly combined company as a national champion for progress in the region.

Macaya, who was previously Deputy Country Manager for the Dutch Caribbean, has three decades of telecom experience and he has worked in several areas including Logistics, Service Delivery, Commercial, Operations and Technology with Setel/UTS.

For the past thirteen years, Macaya was part of the UTS management team where he held the positions of Chief Operations Officer, Chief Technology Officer and Chief Commercial Officer.

During this time, he was responsible for several major projects including Fibre-To-The-Curb deployment, the upgrade of the mobile network and the UTS billing project.

Macaya is an alumnus of the University of the Netherlands Antilles and the Rotterdam School for Applied Sciences.

Last year, Liberty Latin America completed the acquisition of UTS in the Dutch Caribbean.

Liberty Latin America is a leading telecommunications company operating in over twenty countries across Latin America and the Caribbean under the consumer brands VTR, Flow, Liberty, Más Móvil, BTC and Cabletica, while UTS provides fixed and mobile services to the island nations of Curaçao, St. Maarten, St. Martin, Bonaire, St. Barths, St. Eustatius and Saba.

UTS currently serves a total of 101,000 fixed subscribers and 134,000 mobile subscribers, the majority of which are located in Curaçao.