MTN strengthens SA executive team with 5 new appointments
Mobile operator MTN says it has strengthened its executive team in South Africa by appointing five new members including a head of business process transformation.
Effective immediately, Marco Gagiano will assume the role of executive for customer value management. Gagiano joins MTN SA from MTN Group where he was GM of business services and operations in the SEA (Southern and East Africa) region’s vice president’s office.
In that role, he was responsible for commercial and operational support to all the SEA markets.
MTN SA also announced the appointment of Nico Eskes as the head of business process transformation position. The appointment is effective immediately.
In his new role, Eskes will be responsible for managing the transformation of MTN SA’s business processes and associated technology implementation and billing capabilities.
Prior to joining MTN, Eskes was the head of products & services for Vodafone Netherlands.
Philip Besimiire, a former CEO of MTN Sudan, has been appointed as executive for regional operations, effective 1 June 2017. In this role, Besimiire will be responsible for regional operations and looking after MTN’s commercial business and support services in the regions.
Prior to assuming his new role, Besimiire served as CEO of MTN Sudan since February 2013.
Mapula Bodibe will assume the position of executive for consumer business unit, effective 1 June 2017. Bodibe previously served in a number of roles at MTN SA over a period of 10 years, most notably GM for consumer marketing where she was responsible for managing the consumer strategy.
Bodibe re-joins MTN SA from MTN Uganda where she served as the chief marketing officer responsible for driving top line growth for the business through the implementation of effective and innovative marketing strategies.
Nico Jacobs has been appointed to the role of Executive for Sales and Distribution, effective 1 July 2017.
Currently the COO of McDonald’s South Africa, Jacobs has also served in senior executive positions at Absa, EDCON, Standard Bank and The Foschini Group.
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