One of MTN’s very first employees, Karel Pienaar, who has been with the telecommunications group for more than two decades and who was instrumental in the founding of the business, is stepping down.
Pienaar was most recently group chief strategy officer, but he has held a range of senior positions in the group since its founding in the early 1990s.
His departure comes amid a major restructuring at MTN and an overhaul of management, which has seen the appointment of a chief operating officer, long-serving MTN executive Jyoti Desai, and the restructuring of the group into three reporting regions.
In an SMS in response to a query from TechCentral, Pienaar said both his daughters now live in Australia. “It is time I spent more time with them,” he said.
