Bharti
Airtel has today announced the appointments of Farhad Khan as the Chief
Commercial Officer and Daddy Mukadi Bujitu as Chief Regulatory Officer for
Airtel Africa. Farhad Khan, the incoming Chief Commercial Officer, will join
Airtel from the MTN Group. His most recent role was at MTN South Africa, where
he held the position of Chief Sales & Distribution Officer since August
2013.
He
joined MTN in February 2003 as General Manager – Market Segment Strategy. In
October 2005, he was appointed as the Marketing and Customer Relations
Executive at MTN IranCell. In June 2009, he was appointed as CEO of MTN Zambia.
In January 2012, he was appointed as the Executive – Enterprise Business at the
MTN Group Office, before taking up his most recent role.
Daddy
Mukadi Bujitu, the new Chief Regulatory Officer, joins Airtel Africa from the
Vodacom Group where he was the Executive Head, International Regulatory and the
Executive, International Commercial Legal. Before joining the Vodacom Group,
Mr. Mukadi was the Group Corporate Legal Counsel at The Gateway Communications
Group. He has also had successful career stints at the Mkhabela Huntley Adekeye
Inc, and at Communication Users Associations of South Africa. He holds a
Masters of Law degree in Communications Law (LLM) and an Executive Development
Diploma; both from the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. He also holds
a Bachelor of Law (LLB) from the University of Lubumbashi, DRC.
Speaking
on the appointments, Christian de Faria, Airtel Africa’s CEO said, “As Chief
Commercial Officer, Farhad will leverage his deep and broad commercial
experience to focus on our commercial strategy for Africa, build a
strong marketing team to drive a winning consumer value proposition and
reinvigorate our Go-To-Market processes. Farhad takes over from Andre Beyers
who left the business at the end of December to pursue other interests outside
Airtel.”
Mr. De
Faria added “As the Chief of Regulatory for our Africa operations, Mukadi will
craft a long term regulatory strategy for Africa and proactively build
relationships with our key stakeholders.” Mukadi takes over from Mamadou
Kolade, who is leaving at the end of January this year. He added: “We thank
Mamadou for the 17 years of great service and contribution to this company.
Through his excellent relationships, we have been able to ensure timeous
renewals of Licenses even under difficult circumstances and mitigated a number
of regulatory risks across our 17 markets. Please join me in warmly welcoming
Farhad and Daddy to the Airtel Family and in wishing them rewarding careers at
Airtel.”
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