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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Pix: Segun Ogunsanya, Airtel CEO for Nigeria, Ghana
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