A telecom and marketing professional for over 25 years, Foley brings on board commercial and management experience gained from a number of leading telcos in Canada, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Tanzania and Nigeria. An experienced executive, consultant and speaker on telecom issues, he previously served with Celtel as MD Tanzania and as chief commercial officer in Nigeria. He has also served as group CCO for Emirates International Telecommunications (Dubai, Malta, Tunisia and London).
Early in the year, ECHL acquired a 49 per cent stake in Econet Wireless International Limited (EWI) by subscribing to fresh capital in the company. Essar will actively participate with EWI in the network rollout of Econet Wireless Kenya.
Econet Wireless Kenya has also announced three senior leadership appointments. The new appointees are Shailendra Khare as the chief technical officer, Philip Mudimu as project director (East Africa) and Anna Othoro as marketing director.
Shailendra Khare brings on board over 20 years technical experience with the last 13 years in the Cellular Networks domain. Prior to joining Econet as CTO, East Africa, he held a number of senior positions in IBM, Nokia and Reliance Infocomm. He has extensive experience in planning, roll-out and operations of cellular networks. He has also handled managed services role for a leading operator in India. His global experience spans assignments in the India, the Middle East and Africa.
Philip Mudimu has played an instrumental role in steering Econet through the last five years. Philip will lead regulatory and government relations and will also focus on development activities outside of Kenya. Philip has 27 years of telecom experience. After working with the Zimbabwean Posts & Telecommunications, he joined Econet Wireless International where he was a senior executive in Nigeria, South Africa and most recently in Kenya when he joined Econet Wireless Kenya in 2002.
Anna Othoro’s appointment is significant given her understanding of the local mobile telephony marketing terrain. She has an expansive experience in commercial management (sales and marketing) spanning over 11 years having held various senior management positions at both a local and international level with GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare Limited and most recently marketing director of Celtel Kenya Limited. |
