Our Executive Committee

For Sunil’s biography, see Our Board of directors.

*Segun Ogunsanya stepped down as CEO on 30 June 2024

Ian became chief executive officer of Airtel Money in 2022.

He leads the business across 14 OpCos – driving financial performance, strategic direction and execution with a strong focus on product development and customer experience.

Ian has spent the past 17 years leading telecoms companies in Africa, both as an entrepreneur and a corporate CEO. He joined Airtel Africa and the ExCo in 2019 to lead our East Africa operations in Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.

For Jaideep’s biography, see Our Board of directors.

Dinesh is responsible for operations and strategic delivery in our largest market in Africa, Nigeria.

He has over 24 years of experience in telecoms across Africa and India. Until 2024, he was managing director for Airtel Tanzania, where he supported significant business growth in a competitive market through strategic pricing, enhancing products, and disciplined execution.

Oliver leads on strategy, revenue, profitability and growth for Airtel Business, including FibreCo, enterprise and data centres.

Oliver has over 31 years of experience in technology and telecoms in EMEA, US and Asia.

Apoorva manages our financial performance and profitable growth in East Africa. He works with MDs in each market to develop strategy and execution plans for our business verticals, helps develop local leadership teams, and improves the coordination between Group-level and local operating teams.

Apoorva has over 30 years’ experience in operations, sales and marketing across the telecoms, consumer durables and FMCG sectors. He joined Airtel Africa as chief commercial officer in Zambia in 2017 and became managing director in 2018.

Anwar manages the financial performance and profitable growth in our Francophone Africa operations. He works with MDs in each market to develop strategy and execution plans, helps develop local leadership teams and improves coordination between Group-level and local operating teams.

Anwar is a seasoned executive with over 26 years of international experience in telecoms and technology across Africa, Europe and North America. He has been managing director at Airtel Uganda and managing director at Airtel Chad.

Jacques joined Airtel Africa in 2023. He directs the implementation of our information technology and digital strategy, IT governance and cybersecurity by understanding business needs, designing solutions and driving our platform strategy for business growth.

With diversified experience spanning more than 26 years across the retail, management consultancy, banking and telecoms sectors, Jacques brings a blend of operational excellence and innovation to Airtel Africa.

Rogany leads and develops our people strategy to support our overall strategic direction. Her main areas of focus are succession and talent planning, diversity and inclusion, change and performance management, and enhancing our overall employee experience. Rogany also sits on the Sustainability Committee.

Rogany brings over 20 years’ experience in retail, media and consulting to her role at Airtel Africa.

Martin joined Airtel Africa in 2023. He advises on policy and legal strategies to ensure compliance with laws and regulations, manage risks and minimise litigious exposure for our operations and Board of directors.

An accomplished lawyer, Martin has nearly 27 years of international experience in telecoms and technology across Africa and Europe.

Rohit is responsible for revenue and customer growth for mobile and home broadband.

Rohit has 24 years’ experience in market operations. His journey at Airtel began when he joined Airtel India as a management trainee in 2001, where he became national head of marketing for market operations and then CEO of Airtel Maharashtra and Goa circle. He joined Airtel Africa in 2022 as director of marketing and home broadband.

Ramakrishna oversees the procurement of our network equipment and IT. He manages our tower companies and bandwidth, sales and distribution, supply chain for marketing and HR services, and warehouse operations and logistics. He also leads on our cost-reduction initiatives.

Ramakrishna has spent more than 36 years in the telecoms industry, with more than 10 years of those years at Airtel Africa.

Daddy is responsible for our regulatory and government relations strategy in all 14 operations. This includes obtaining all necessary resources (licence, spectrum), ensuring full compliance and actively helping to move the policy and regulatory landscape towards best practice.

With a master’s degree in communications law (telecoms, broadcasting, media, and space and satellite law) and as author of several volumes of a handbook for media law practitioners, Daddy brings a broad understanding of legal and regulatory affairs to his role at Airtel Africa.

Razvan leads on our technology strategy and the delivery of this to the network leadership in each of our 14 markets. He focuses on strategic network thinking, design and rollout, operations and the quality of our ongoing technical operations.

Razvan has 33 years’ experience in telecoms and has worked in Belgium, Caribbean and Central America markets, Luxembourg and Romania.