Telecom Executive Moves – First Weeks Of 2020

A carefully curated list of executive announcements for the period December 21st 2019 to January 12th 2020, relevant to the ICT sector.

Telco Moves covers notable hires, promotions and personnel changes in the global Telecom and ICT community.

Bell Canada Enterprises

BCE Inc. welcomes Mirko Bibic as President and Chief Executive Officer and announces his appointment to the boards of BCE and Bell Canada. Mr. Bibic assumes the Chief Executive role following George Cope‘s retirement.

Mr. Bibic also announced a restructured Bell executive leadership team: “I’m proud to welcome Claire Gillies and Karine Moses to the Bell executive team and announce new roles for current executives Blaik Kirby and John Watson“.

Sunrise

The Board of Directors of Sunrise announces that Olaf Swantee has decided to resign as CEO of Sunrise after almost four years with the company.

It also announces that André Krause, up to now CFO at Sunrise, succeeds Olaf as CEO, effective immediately.

Uwe Schiller, Senior Vice President Finance and Investor Relations at Sunrise will become its new CFO with immediate effect, following the appointment of André Krause as CEO of Sunrise.

Bruno Duarte, Chief Consumer Officer, will leave Sunrise.

AWS & Amazon

Light Reading reports that Axel Clauberg, a long-time advocate of next-generation networking technology and one of the best known figures in the carrier SDN and NFV sector, has left Deutsche Telekom to join Amazon Web Services (AWS).

In other Amazon-related news, Bharti Airtel’s Chief Executive Officer for broadband services, Sameer Batra, has quit from the position to join Amazon as Director for mobile business development.

Cellcom Israel

Cellcom Israel Ltd. announced that following its previous announcement as to the Company’s CEO resigning from office, The Company’s board of directors has appointed former Labor party leader Mr. Avi Gabbay, as the Company’s CEO, effective January 19, 2020.

KT

KT has chosen Koo Hyun-mo, Head of its customer & media division, as new CEO and president. He will succeed the incumbent CEO and Chairman Hwang Chang-gyu, whose term ends in March 2020.

du

Fahad Al Hassawi has taken on the role of acting Chief Executive Officer of Du from January 1. The current deputy CEO-consumer services of the company will be placed in charge of the telecommunications giant until Johan Dennelind takes up the position “which is expected to be by the end of January 2020”.

Dennelind was previously CEO of Stockholm-based Telia Co. after having worked with Telenor ASA and DiGi in Malaysia.

Euskaltel

Spanish regional cable operator Euskaltel has named ángel Olabuenaga Burón as its new Chief Financial Officer, replacing Jon Ander de las Fuentes Inchausti.

Radcom

RADCOM Ltd. announced that Mr. Hilik Itman, previously Vice President of R&D, has been promoted to Chief Operating Officer, effective immediately. Hilik Itman will assume overall responsibility for the execution of Radcom’s product strategy and customer implementations by leading the Customer Success, Q&A, R&D, and Professional Services teams.

Orange Belgium

Orange Belgium’s Board of Directors has validated the nomination of Christophe Dujardin as Chief Consumer Officer, starting February 1st, 2020. Christophe Dujardin succeeds Cristina Zanchi, who decided to seek for new opportunities after 9 years of passionate contribution within Mobistar/Orange Belgium.

Amdocs

Loukas Tzitzis has been appointed as General Manager, ANZ & Singapore Division. Effective 1st January 2020, Loukas Tzitzis is the Regional APAC Vice President, in addition to his role as Vice President, B2B – International (APAC, EMEA, Russia & CIS, LATAM).

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