The Board of Airtel Kenya has appointed Louis Onyango Otieno as Chairman and Ashish Malhotra as Managing Director (MD), to steer the firm’s next phase of growth. The new chairman of the Airtel Kenya board [c]
Safaricom has announced that Sylvia Mulinge, the telco’s Chief Consumer Business Officer, will be leaving the company to take up a new role outside the firm. Ms Mulinge’s last working day at the telco will [c]
Dimension Data, a technology services provider in Africa and Middle East, has announced the appointment of Alan Turnley-Jones as CEO of Dimension Data Middle East and Africa (MEA), effective from 1 June 2022. Turnley-Jones joined [c]
WPP-Scangroup shareholders have, during its 16th Annual General Meeting (AGM), passed resolutions that will strengthen the composition of its board and welcomed the appointment of its new CEO, Ms Patricia Ithau. Shareholders of NSE’s only [c]
Edelman, the global communications firm, has announced Karena Crerar as CEO, Edelman Africa. Karena previously held the role of Managing Director, Edelman South Africa. Edelman Africa is a pan-African communications consultancy, offering clients the largest [c]
Florian Seiche, the HMD Global CEO is set visit Kenya today. The high-level tour is part of the CEO’s visit to the East Africa markets aligning the company’s outlook and strategy for the market. During [c]
Cassava Technologies has announced that it has appointed Tesh Durvasula as the new CEO of Africa Data Centres (ADC) effective February 7, 2022. Durvasula will be responsible for driving growth, innovation and strategy of Cassava [c]
The Orange board has appointed Christel Heydemann as the group’s new CEO with effect from 4 April 2022. Christel Heydemann, who’s currently the Executive VP for Europe Operations at Schneider Electric, has been picked by [c]
LG Electronics’ (LG) new CEO William Cho announced the company’s priorities for 2022, communicating the importance of being even more strategic in the new year to increase customer value and strengthen existing businesses while preparing [c]
LG Electronics (LG) has announced the appointment of William Cho, its Chief Strategy Officer, as the company’s new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) effective December 1, 2021. Mr. Cho ascends to the helm of the global [c]
Liquid Intelligent Technologies, a business of Cassava Technologies, has announced the appointment of Denny Marandure to the position of CEO for Raha Tanzania. Denny Marandure joined Liquid in 2014 as the CEO of ZOL Zimbabwe [c]
Jumia, Africa’s e-commerce platform, has announced the appointment of one of Africa’s most powerful and influential women in Kenya, Betty Mwangi, as the firm’s new CEO in Kenya. Ms Mwangi takes over the leadership mantle [c]
Privately held African telecoms group, Econet, has announced the launch of Cassava Technologies. The new outfit brings together Econet’s digital services and digital infrastructure product segments, encompassing fiber broadband networks, data centers, and renewable energy; [c]
The effects of the scandal surrounding the founders of Wapi Pay continued to be felt across the startup and fintech ecosystem with various stakeholders in the firm coming out to express their position. First was [c]
By Jaco Maritz As the world continues to shift, manufacturers and distributors have had to contend with new complexities of doing business. Driven by emerging customer preferences and immediate supplier needs, the industry has had [c]
Cellulant has announced that Acting CEO, Akshay Grover, has been appointed as Group CEO and Director of Cellulant with effect from 1 October 2021. The appointment follows an executive search process following the announcement in [c]
Segun Ogunsanya, the incoming Airtel Africa Group CEO, has been named the African Business Leader of the Year in the 2021 African Business Leadership Awards (ABLA). The awards are organized by African Leadership Magazine, a [c]
MTN Group has announced the appointment of Eliane Houphouet-Boigny as the CEO of MTN Guinea-Bissau, effective 1 July 2021, the latest woman to take the helm at an MTN operation. “I would like to welcome [c]
Liquid Intelligent Technologies (Liquid), a pan African technology group, has confirmed Martin Mushambadope as the CEO for its operations in South Sudan in an announcement. “Martin is a seasoned, well-respected, experienced senior executive, and he [c]
The African Leadership Academy (ALA) on July1, 2021, announced the appointment of Bilha Ndirangu as its new and third CEO, making her the first Kenyan and first woman to head the academy, succeeding the institution’s [c]
Airtel has announced the appointment of Olusegun “Segun” Ogunsanya, the MD and CEO of Nigeria, as the new head of the group’s operations in Africa. Segun succeeds Raghunath “Raghu” Mandava, the current MD and CEO [c]
Gokada, the Nigeria-based last mile delivery, logistics and transportation start-up, has formally unveiled Nikhil Goel as its new CEO, as it continues to evolve from a riding-hailing company to becoming the leading food delivery, parcel [c]
The WPP-Scangroup has thins morning sent out a letter announcing the suspension of the advertising group’s long-serving CEO Bharat Thakrar as well as the the CFO Satyabrata Das over alleged gross misconduct. The suspension is [c]
Liquid Telecom has appointed Wole Abu as CEO for Liquid Telecom Nigeria and its new Africa Data Centre (ADC) in Nigeria, effective January 2021. The organisation had recently acquired a premium piece of land in [c]
SEACOM has announced that Byron Clatterbuck, who joined the ICT company in 2012 as its Chief Commercial Officer, and became SEACOM Group CEO in February 2015, has resigned and will be ending his tenure with [c]
The GSMA has elected new members of the GSMA Board of Directors for the two years from January 2021 through December 2022. The GSMA Board comprises the world’s largest operator groups and smaller independent operators [c]
FiberLight, a fiber infrastructure provider with more than 20 years of experience building and operating mission-critical, high-bandwidth networks, has announced the appointment of Christopher Rabii as CEO. Rabii is taking the place of Jim Lynch, [c]
MTN Group has announced two executive appointments: a new CEO in MTN Nigeria and MTN Group chief risk officer, a new group executive committee (exco) position. Both are effective from March 1, 2021. Karl Toriola, [c]
Liquid Telecom South Africa has announced the appointment of Deon Geyser as its new CEO from January 1, 2021. Geyser will be responsible for overseeing the strategic repositioning of the company as Liquid Intelligent Technologies and [c]
MTN Group has announced the appointment of Rahul De as the new CEO for MTN Liberia, also called Lonestar Cell. Rahul De, the current Chief Marketing Officer of MTN Nigeria, will take the helm at [c]
Hilda Kabushenga Kragha, the Jobberman Nigeria CEO, has been named as the new MD of ROAM (Ringier One Africa Media) Africa Jobs. Kabushenga takes over from Kwaku Agbesi, who chose to fully focus on his [c]
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