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Director of various companies in the MTN Group.
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Ralph Mupita is the Group President and CEO of MTN Group, a position he has held since the 1st September 2020, having recently served as the MTN Group’s Chief Financial Officer since April 2017. Prior to joining MTN, Ralph served as the Chief Executive Officer for Old Mutual Emerging Markets, providing financial service solutions to individuals and corporates across 19 countries in Africa, Latin America and Asia. Under his leadership, the Insurance Group’s Emerging Market business serviced over 19 million customers and had R1 trillion of assets under management.
Ralph is a seasoned business leader with experience in engineering, construction, financial services and telecommunications. Since joining MTN, Ralph has played a pivotal role in the strengthening the Group’s financial position, strategy formulation and successful listing on the Nigerian and Ghanaian Stock Exchanges.
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Tsholofelo joins MTN from Telkom where she held the positions of Deputy Chief Financial Officer and Group Risk and Compliance officer, prior to her appointment as the Group Chief Financial officer in 2018. Before joining Telkom, Tsholofelo was employed as a Finance Director of Eskom Holdings, and an executive director of the company’s main board. She has also held various other roles at Eskom Holdings.
In addition to her, extensive telecommunications industry experience, Tsholofelo has also worked in the banking and financial services sector before joining Eskom in various roles. She brings with her extensive financial strategy, financial management and accounting experience, with a strong background in enterprise risk management and financial controls.
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Jens Schulte-Bockum is the MTN Group Chief Operating Officer, responsible for all commercial functions and platforms except for Fintech at Group level. In addition to overseeing the consumer core connectivity business and Group marketing, he is tasked with scaling the new initiatives for home, fibre, enterprise services and network as a service (NaaS). His teams also build the Group’s digital services platform, including the Ayoba super-app, and the API market-place capability Chenosis.
Jens has extensive operational experience in the telecoms sector, with his last senior role being as CEO of Vodafone Germany between 2012 and 2015. Jens has extensive experience in consumer mobile, enterprise and fibre broadband businesses, as well as the area of large-scale transformation in a converged telecom operation.
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Mazen Mroue is the MTN Group Chief Technology and Information Officer (GCTIO). Prior to this appointment he held the position the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of MTN Nigeria.
Since joining MTN in 1998, Mazen has held various senior positions within the Group’s regional operations in WECA, SEA and MENA including roles as CEO, COO and CIO of various operating companies.
Mazen holds a Master’s degree in Engineering, Intellectual Systems and Networks. He is also certified in Leadership Development and Executive Finance from Harvard Business School and INSEAD respectively.
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Director of various companies in MTN Group.
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Charles Molapisi is the CEO of MTN South Africa. Prior to this appointment he held the position of Group Chief Technical and Information Officer.
He is a former Chief Executive Officer of MTN Zambia (2015 to 2018) and the Chief Information Officer for MTN Nigeria (2012 to 2015) and has been with MTN since 2009. Charles has previously served on the boards of MTN Zambia (as Executive Director), MTN Business Botswana, MTN Business Kenya and MTN Business Namibia.
He holds a bachelor’s degree in Commerce from University of the Witwatersrand and Master’s in Business Leadership from the University of South Africa. He has also attended executive programs at IMD Business School, Harvard Business School, Columbia Business School and INSEAD.
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Director of various companies in the MTN Group
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Karl joined MTN in 2006 and has held various senior operational roles across the Group, including CEO of MTN Cameroon and CTO of MTN Nigeria. Before his appointment as CEO of MTN Nigeria, he held the position of Vice President for the West and Central Africa Region. Other experience includes Chief Operations Officer at Airtel Nigeria and various roles in Ericsson in Switzerland and Nigeria. Karl is also a Fellow of the Nigerian Society of Engineers (FNSE) as well as a member of the Council of Registered Engineers of Nigeria (COREN) and the Institute of Directors (IoD).
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Ebenezer Asante is the Senior Vice President (SVP) of markets, with overall P & L responsibility of all MTN’s regions.
Prior to this appointment he held the positions of VP of the WECA region as well as VP of the SEAGHA region, a position he held from September 2017 to December 2020.
Ebenezer has also held CEO positions for MTN Ghana and MTN Rwanda. For both operations, he was responsible for providing sound human resource leadership and ensuring financial and organizational profitability and sustainability of the operating units.
Ms Yolanda Cuba is the Vice President SEA region of the MTN Group having joined in January 2020. She is the former CEO of Vodafone Ghana and former Group Chief Strategy Officer for strategy, new business and M&A at Vodacom Group covering South Africa, Tanzania, Mozambique, DRC and Lesotho. Ms Cuba comes with a wealth of experience in telecoms, financial services and fast-moving consumer goods amongst others. Her work experience started in corporate finance and transitioned to operational management in diversified industries.
She was one of the youngest CEOs of a JSE-listed company at the age of 29 years and has been recognised as CEO/Business personality of the year by multiple platforms over her 20-year working experience. She was also selected by the World Economic Forum as one of the Young Global Leaders and named one of the Choiseul 100 Africa by Institut Choiseul (France).
She is a CA (SA) by training and holds a Bachelor of Commerce, Bachelor of Commerce (Hons) and a Master of Commerce degree from the University of Pretoria. She is an alumnus of programs at INSEAD and Harvard Kennedy School.
She has served on numerous JSE-listed companies as non-executive director including Absa Group where she was the longest serving member for 12 years before resigning in 2019.
She is passionate about education and inclusive social and financial development and has served on the Advisory Board of Stellenbosch University Business School, a founder of Cuba-Mtyi Foundation and serves on the Nelson Mandela Foundation Investment Committee since 2006.
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Ismail has extensive telecommunications experience. Prior to his appointment as the Group Vice President for MENA, he was CEO of MTN Syria. Ismail has held various senior operational roles for Investcom’s subsidiaries across the Middle East and North Africa.
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Serigne Dioum is the Group Chief Fintech officer. Prior to this appointment he has held the positions of Group Chief Digital and Fintech officer, as well as Group Executive for Mobile Financial services.
Serigne Dioum, joined MTN in 2009 and has an established track record in the telecoms sector, with strong experience in mobile financial services (MFS).
Prior to joining the Group, Serigne worked at Orange in senior roles responsible for its mobile money business, operational marketing as well as value added services and data offerings. Serigne is highly qualified and experienced to continue the mission to drive financial inclusion across the Group’s footprint as well as lead the journey to build and scale the platforms within this important strategic pillar of MTN’s growth strategy.