Airtel Africa Plc, a leading provider comunications and mobile money services with presence in 14 countries across Africa, has announced O...
Airtel Africa Plc, a leading provider comunications and mobile
money services with presence in 14 countries across Africa, has announced
Olusegun Ogunsanya, as Managing Director and CEO.
The Nigerian is to succeed Raghunath Mandava, who has informed
the board of his intention to retire..Ogunsanya will join the Board of Airtel
Africa plc with effect from 1 October, 2021.
He joined Airtel Africa in 2012 as Managing Director and CEO
Nigeria and has been responsible for the overall management of our operations
in Nigeria, the firm’s largest market in Africa.
He has more than 25 years’ business management experience in
banking, consumer goods and telecoms.
Before joining Airtel in 2012, Segun held leadership roles at
Coca-Cola in Ghana, Nigeria, and Kenya (as MD and CEO).
He has also been the Managing Director of Nigerian Bottling
Company Ltd (Coca-Cola Hellenic owned) and Group head of retail banking
operations at Ecobank Transnational Inc, covering 28 countries in Africa.
He is an electronics engineer and a chartered accountant.
Airtel Africa chairman, Sunil Bharti Mittal, said: “We are
delighted to appoint Segun Ogunsanya as the Group’s next Chief Executive
Officer’’
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