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Vodafone CEO visits Ghana
Vodafone’s regional Chief Executive Officer for Africa, Middle East and Asia Pacific, Serpil Timuray, is currently visitng Ghana on a two-day working visit to Vodafone Ghana. According to Vodafone, Timuray is engaging key stakeholders in the telecoms industry, government officials,…
Fortinet Middle East & Africa appoints regional marketing manager
Fortinet has revealed the appointment of Manal Abi Rafeh as its Regional Marketing Manager for the Middle East and Africa. Manal is based out of Fortinet’s regional office in Dubai Media City and will report to Yann Pradelle, Vice President,…
Ghana: Airtel MD engages with customers in Kasoa
Lucy Quist, Managing Director of Airtel Ghana, took to the streets of Kasoa, a marketing hub in the Central Region, to interact with Airtel customers and retailers in order to gain insight on their experience with the network. According to…
Cisco appoints new GM for South Africa
Cisco has revealed that Cathy Smith has been appointed as General Manager for Cisco’s business operations in South Africa. According to Cisco, as South African organisations embrace the next wave of technology transformation and become fully digitised, this presents a…
Microsoft appoints new Ghana country manager
Microsoft is moving forward on its promises of putting local candidates forward for management positions by appointing Derek Appiah as country manager for Ghana. The move comes as Microsoft Ghana has seen its staff become 100 percent Ghanaian and hope…
South Africa: Liquid Telecom appoints Seacom exec as CEO
According to the Liquid Telecom Group, Willem Marais has been appointed as Group Managing Executive. Additionally, Marais joins the company as the Chief Executive Officer of Liquid Telecom South Africa. The company revealed that Marais brings over 20 years’ experience…
Alcatel-Lucent appoints new MD for Ghana
Alcatel-Lucent has revealed the appointment of Ramy Hashem as country senior officer and MD for Ghana. According to the company, Hashem will assume overall responsibility for day-to-day operations, and will take the lead on strategic business directions. Based in Accra, Hashem will report to Alpin…
MultiChoice Africa appoints new CEO
MultiChoice Africa has appointed Tim Jacobs, formerly chief financial officer of the pay-TV segment at MultiChoice, as the new CEO, replacing Nico Meyer who left the company for “personal reasons”. Meyer left the group’s employ on 31 March, MultiChoice’s GM…
Fortumo acquires Google veteran as new CRO
Mobile payments company Fortumo has revealed the appointment of Tim Carter as its Chief Revenue Officer, based in the company’s London office. Tim previously established Google’s Android business development team in Europe, Middle-East and Africa starting from 2009, launched payments for…
Airtel Africa reveals new MD for Chad operation
Bharti Airtel Africa has announced the appointment of Anwar Soussa as Managing Director for Airtel Chad. Soussa, whose appointment will take effect from May 1st 2015, will be a key part of building the company’s strategic leadership and day to…
Safaricom’s Nzioka Waita joins Kenyan civil service
Safaricom’s, Nzioka Waita has been called to the Civil Service by Kenyan President, Uhuru Kenyatta. Nzioka is currently the mobile operator’s Head of Corporate Affairs. According to a report by cio.co.ke, the 39-year-old has been appointed Secretary of Delivery in…
BPeSA appoints new CEO
BPeSA, the BPO industry association for South Africa, has appointed Tebogo Molapisane as the new CEO following the re-launch of the national organisation. Tebogo has been involved in the contact centre industry for the past 16 years and is the…
Lenovo appoints new EMEA and North America Presidents
Lenovo has revealed new leaders for North America and Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), following a recent realignment of its business groups and geographies to drive greater consistency, synergy and focus across the world. In a new leadership role,…
Nigeria: Etisalat appoints new VPs
According to Etisalat Nigeria, it has appointed Ibrahim Dikko as vice president for regulatory and corporate affairs, and Ken Ogujiofor as vice president for consumer sales and service. The company has revealed that Dikko was previously the director for government…
Gilat CEO steps down
Gilat Satellite Networks has revealed that Erez Antebi, has decided to step down from the position of CEO of Gilat Satellite Networks. Dov Baharav, Gilat’s Chairman of the Board will assume the position of interim CEO until a new CEO…
Alcatel-Lucent appoints new MD for Nigeria
Alcatel-Lucent has appointed Richard Edet as Country Senior Officer and Managing Director for Nigeria. According to Alcatel-Lucent, Edet will begin his new role effective immediately. Edet will assume overall responsibility for managing day-to-day operations, as well as taking the lead…
