MTN Nigeria CEO honored as Technology Person of the Year Award.

Karl Torialo, Chief Executive Officer of MTN Nigeria, has been honored with a top industry as the Technology Person of the Year award at the Nigerian Tech Innovation and Telecom Awards (NTITA).

He also led MTN Nigeria to win additional five awards to cement the network operator's commitment to leading the country's telecom space.

Mr. Toriala, whose exemplary leadership in recent periods has placed MTN Nigeria business on the path of growth, was appointed in 2020 as the company's new CEO.

 He joined MTN Nigeria in 2006 as Chief Technical Officer and became a non-executive director for MTN Benin in 2010. He functioned in the same role in MTN Cameroon from December 2010 and moved on from both positions in July 2011.

Toriola held his first executive position in MTN in 2011 as the interim CEO for MTN Congo Brazzaville. His next executive post came in November 2011 as the CEO of the group’s Cameroon branch.

In 2015, MTN appointed Toriola as its Vice-President for West and Central Africa and, he still functions in that role.

Besides working with MTN, Toriola has worked with other companies including Ericsson and Econet (which underwent so much transformation to finally become Airtel). He worked with Econet as deputy CTO and became Chief Operations Officer when the telco morphed into Vmobile and later into Zain.

He was appointed by MTN Group as a non-executive director in Jumia Group. Karl Toriola and Ferdi Moolman will assume their new positions from March 1, 2021.

By: Kanto Okanta