{"id":549168,"date":"2006-06-14T07:18:57","date_gmt":"2006-06-14T07:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/549168-mtn-board-shuffle-confirmed.html"},"modified":"2006-06-14T07:18:57","modified_gmt":"2006-06-14T07:18:57","slug":"mtn-board-shuffle-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/549168-mtn-board-shuffle-confirmed.html","title":{"rendered":"MTN board shuffle confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">The members of the reconstituted MTN Group Limited Board of Directors are: Cyril M Ramaphosa (chairperson), Phuthuma F Nhleko (group president and CEO), Sifiso R Dabengwa (group chief operating officer), Robert D Nisbet (group chief financial officer), Peter L Woicke, Dr Mamphela Ramphele, Koosum Kalyan, Johnson MN Njeke, Sheikh Abdul RH Sharbatly, Jan HN Strydom, Alan F van Biljon and Douglas DB Band. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Following the international expansion of the MTN Group and its geographical scope of business, the group has reviewed its board composition and management operating structures. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">As announced in May, the MTN group board will also support MTN&#8217;s new operating and reporting structure, which now comprise three regional focus areas &#8211; Southern Africa; West\/Central Africa; and Middle East\/North &amp; East Africa. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">MTN recently announced that it had met all the pre-conditions with regard to making an offer to acquire the shares in Dubai- and London-listed mobile telecommunications company, Investcom LLC. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The transaction will make the MTN Group one of the world&#8217;s largest emerging market players in telecommunications and the leader in Africa and the Middle East, operating mobile networks in 21 countries, covering a population under licence on a combined basis of approximately 488 million people and serving in excess of 28 million subscribers. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">MTN group president and CEO, Mr Phuthuma Nhleko said: &quot;The rapid realisation of the MTN Group&#8217;s expansion strategy prompted us to implement a regionalised operational structure to ensure a more focused supervision of the various operating units for a more efficient and effective organisation. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">&quot;I am confident that this and the integration of Investcom&#8217;s experienced personnel will broaden MTN&#8217;s proven management capacity, facilitate knowledge transfer and enable us to further develop our business in the Middle East.&quot; <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=45844\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><font size=\"2\">Discuss this article<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shareholders of mobile service provider MTN on Tuesday approved the reconstituted MTN Group Limited board of directors at the group&#8217;s annual general meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-549168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549168"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}