MTN Group has announced the appointment of MTN Ghana CEO, Selorm Adadevoh, a Ghanaian, to the new role of MTN Group, Chief Commercial Officer, taking over from Jens Schulte-BOCKUM who steps down as Group Chief Operating Officer at the end of his contract term in March 2024.
At the same time, Stephen Blewett, MTN Operations
Executive, Markets, will assume the role of CEO of the important MTN Ghana subsidiary.
Selorm will become a member of the MTN Group
Executive Committee. Jens will step down from his executive role on 31 March
2024 but will remain a non-executive director on the boards of major
subsidiaries – MTN South Africa, MTN Nigeria and Bayobab.
"We
congratulate Selorm on his new appointment and thank him for successfully leading the company and steering it through
challenging times, and for his hard work and commitment to MTN Ghana over the
past five and a half years. We have no doubt that he will excel in his new
role.” said MTN
Ghana Board Chairman, Dr. Ishmael Yamson.
Selorm
joined MTN in 2018 as CEO of MTN Ghana. Prior to that, he held key roles at
Caribbean mobile network operator, Digicel, as well as with Millicom in Africa,
in addition to several roles in the USA, UK and Latin America at various stages
in his career.
Since joining MTN, Selorm has led the
transformation of the MTN Ghana business and has been instrumental in driving
the new Ambition 2025 strategy for MTN Ghana towards becoming a platform
player. His influence and impact on major industry initiatives have been
significant.
Stephen re-joined MTN in July 2023 as the
Operations Executive for Markets, with executive responsibility for the Group’s
smaller West and Central Africa markets and for providing broader operations
support across that region to the Group’s Senior Vice President for Markets.
Prior to that, he was Chief Operating Officer of Digicel. Before that, he spent
seven years at MTN in the role of CEO for MTN Benin and then MTN Cameroon.
"We
welcome Stephen into the MTN Ghana family and look forward to working with him
to move the company forward to achieve our Ambition 2025 strategy and beyond,” Chairman
Yamson added.