Breaking News: Bharti Airtel names Ogunsanya CEO, Nigeria, Ghana

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The management of Bharti Airtel in Africa has named Mr. Segun Ogunsanya, the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Airtel operations in Nigeria and Ghana, reports ITRealms.

Airtel also said that with this change, effective April 1, 2016, the Managing Director of Airtel Ghana, Lucy Quist, will now report to Mr. Ogunsanya.

ITRealms gathered that Bharti Airtel recently announced the top level changes for its Africa operations, noting that the new structure would further enhance the level of empowerment and enable faster decision making as well as speed to market.

Also, the latest structure saw to the elevation of Mr. Christian de Faria, who was formerly the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer for Airtel Africa, to the position of Executive Chairman, Airtel Africa.

Christian de Faria, would in this new role continue to support the vision of Airtel Africa and lead all matters relating to legal, regulatory affairs, shareholders as well as Mergers and Acquisitions.

In a related development, Raghunath Mandava, who was the Director – Customer Experience India & South Asia, has now been elevated to Chief Operating Officer, Airtel Africa.

He is expected to relocate to Nairobi and take full responsible for the commercial operations.

Chairman, Bharti Airtel, Mr. Sunil Bharti Mittal, said “Christian has done an excellent job by streamlining the operations, strengthening the leadership teams across Africa while enhancing the image of Airtel brand across Africa.”

Mr. Bharti said, he believes they have a strong platform to accelerate our journey towards profitability and market leadership and the new cluster based organisation design will provide an enabling environment to the teams.

“The appointment of Raghu will help leverage the platform and sharpen our market focus and strengthen the innovation pipeline. We remain fully committed to Africa and will continue to invest in the growth of our operations. I wish Christian, Raghu and the operating teams the very best for their new roles,” he said.

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Segun Ogunsanya is ‘Telecom CEO of the Year’

... Airtel wins most customer friendly network

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The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Airtel Nigeria, Mr. Segun Ogunsanya, was at the weekend named the ‘Telecom CEO of The Year’ at the Nigerian Telecom Awards 2014 held in Lagos, reports ITRealms.

Mr. Ogunsanya was one of the CEOs nominated in the award category of this year’s Nigerian Telecom Awards which is the 10th edition and held at The Incubator Event Centre, Oniru, Victoria Island, Lagos, saw Airtel Nigeria also wing award as the ‘Most Customer Friendly Network.’

The 2014 Nigerian Telecoms Award night was graced by prominent individuals such as former Minister of Sports, Chief Alex Akinyele; former Ogun State Governor, Otunba Gbenga Daniel; Executive Director, Nigerian Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC), Hon. Lola Edewor and other distinguished  personalities.

ITRealms gathered at the venue that the CEO award was presented by the former governor of Ogun State, Otunba Gbenga Daniel with former Commissioner of Ogun State, Dr. Josephine Olatomi Soboyejo to the Chief Operations Officer, Airtel Nigeria, Mr. Tolu Ojo who stood in for Mr. Ogunsanya.

While a commissioner of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Dr. Mike Onyia made the presentation of the ‘Most Customer Friendly Network’ Award to Airtel Nigeria via Mr. Ojo accompanied by the Head, High Value Sales, Airtel, Buchi Anaekwe; Director, Customer Service Delivery, Airtel, Ajay Bashki; Director, IT, Rajat Jain and Director, Supply Chain Management, Airtel, Raghvendra Gupta.

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Pix: L-R, Former Governor of Ogun State, Otunba Gbenga Daniel with former Commissioner of Ogun State, Dr. Josephine Olatomi Soboyejo presenting the ‘Telecom CEO of The Year’ Award won by Airtel CEO, Segun Ogunsanya, to the Chief Operations Officer, Airtel, Mr. Tolu Ojo who represented the CEO at the Nigerian Telecom Awards 2014 held on Saturday in Lagos.

Airtel CEO leads discussants @ Telecom Dev. Lecture’13

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The Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, Airtel Nigeria, Mr. Segun Ogunsanya, would on this Friday, lead discussants on the future of Nigeria’s telecoms market as keynote speaker at the 7^th annual Nigerian Telecom Development Lecture (NTDL).

ITRealms gathered that the event organised by Logica Communications, publishers of the Nigerian Telecom Weekly, that the lecture is an annual platform for thought leadership on the intersection between telecommunications and society.

The lecture, which is scheduled to hold on Friday, September 20^th, 2013 at the Tafawa Balewa Square, Onikan, Lagos, will commence at 10.a.m.

The event, the organisers said would be chaired by Chief Peter Igho, Chairman, Nigerian Communications Commission and will also feature a keynote address from Dr. Eugene Juwah, Executive Vice Chairman, Nigeria Communications Commission.

Mr. Ogunsanya would speak on The Nigerian Telecoms Market: Championing the African Course at the lecture, would also feature a paper by Osun State Governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, according to Otunba Biodun Ajiboye, the chief host.

Ajiboye disclosed that Ogunsanya would mount a platform that had featured distinguished speakers, including Prof Wole Soyinka; former Executive Vice Chairman, NCC, Dr. Ernest Ndukwe; Bishop Mathew Hassan Kukah; Harvard historian, Prof. Molefi Kete Asante, and former Governors of Lagos State and Cross Rivers State, Bola Tinubu and Donald Duke, respectively.

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