The MTN group has announced the appointment of Ebenezer Asante as VP for its expanded Southern and East Africa and Ghana (SEAGHA) region, effective 1 October 2017.
The role became vacant when then VP, Godfrey Motsa, was appointed CEO of MTN South Africa in March. Karl Toriola, VP for the West and Central Africa (WECA) region, has been managing the portfolio of operations in the Southern and East Africa (SEA) region in an acting capacity.
The new SEAGHA Region will comprise the mobile operations in Ghana, Uganda, Rwanda, Zambia, South Sudan, Botswana and Swaziland as well as the MTN Internet service providers (ISPs) in Kenya, Namibia and Botswana. MTN says the inclusion of Ghana within SEA "re-balances the workload across MTN group's regional structures, further optimising the oversight responsibilities of the regional VPs".
MTN group president and CEO, Rob Shuter, says Asante is a "great talent and business leader".
"His appointment to this new role not only speaks to our strong bench strength, but the pool of talent we have within MTN," Shuter says.
Asante is currently the CEO of MTN Ghana, a position he has held since July 2015. In his new role, he will report directly to Shuter and also joins the group executive committee.
Asante began his journey with MTN in 2008, as sales and distribution executive at MTN Ghana. He later moved to Rwanda as CEO. After two years in Rwanda, he returned to Ghana in 2015 to take up the CEO role. Before joining MTN, he spent 13 years with Unilever, where he held various positions.
He holds a BA (Hons) Economics and Statistics degree from the University of Ghana and a Postgraduate Diploma in Management from Henley Management College.
Asante was recognised as the Best CEO in the MTN Group last year, and received a similar award at the 2016 AfricaCom Conference in Cape Town.
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