MTN has hired former Vodafone Germany CEO
Jens Schulte-Bockum as its new Chief Operating Officer, replacing Jyoti Desai,
who is retiring.
Besides, the
group has announced it is hiring BT Global Services sub-Saharan Africa CEO
Oliver Fortuin as executive head of business enterprise and Bernice Samuels as
group executive of marketing.
Schulte-Bockum
will assume the position of group COO effective 16 January 2017. Schulte-Bockum
was CEO of Vodafone Germany between 2012 and 2015.
“We expect Jens
to bring extensive experience in the consumer business, as well as the area of
large-scale transformation in a convergent operation,” MTN said in a statement
to shareholders on Wednesday.
Fortuin,
meanwhile, will join MTN on 1 March 2017 from BT Global Services. Fortuin has
decades of ICT sector experience at companies such as IBM, Hewlett-Packard and
Lenovo.
“As head of BT
Global Services, Oliver was engaged in the development and sale of enterprise solutions to many multinationals across the
African continent. Oliver will greatly enhance MTN’s strategy in this area,” MTN
said.
Samuels, meanwhile, is a familiar face at MTN. She was previously chief
marketing officer at MTN South Africa, prior to assuming a similar role at
First National Bank. After leaving FNB, she was named executive director of
strategy and business development at SABMiller in South Africa.
“These senior management appointments bring to finality the management
aspect of a large-scale transformation and operational review process which I
am confident will place the group in good stead to capitalise on its many
prospects and reach its full potential in a
rapidly transforming and exciting sector,” said MTN interim executive chairman
Phuthuma Nhleko in the statement.
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