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Vodafone promotes Liebenberg

Staff Writer
By Staff Writer, ITWeb
Johannesburg, 13 Feb 2014
Deon Liebenberg will manage Vodafone Global Enterprise's African portfolio.
Deon Liebenberg will manage Vodafone Global Enterprise's African portfolio.

Vodafone Global Enterprise (VGE), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Vodafone Group, says Deon Liebenberg has been appointed VP of VGE Africa, as of April.

Liebenberg is no stranger to VGE, as he was previously managing executive for VGE at Vodacom in SA and CEO for the Vodacom Business Africa Group of companies across Africa, a position he stepped into about a year ago.

VGE is a multinational company that provides telecommunications and information technology services to large corporations through hubs throughout Africa, Asia Pacific, Europe and the Americas.

"Deon [Liebenberg] brings over 20 years' experience in the ICT and telecom industry, earned working at some of SA's leading operators and multinational telecom service providers. I am certain Deon will use his expertise and vast experience to build the VGE Africa portfolio and further accelerate our growth strategy across Africa," says president of Asia and Africa VGE, Stevan Hoyle.

Liebenberg's new role will involve the management of VGE's portfolio, which serves Vodafone's largest multinational customers across Africa.

He holds a Bachelor of Economics, from the University of the Free State, as well as a Bachelor of Business Management and Administration and a Masters in Business and Administration, from the University of Stellenbosch.

After a year as MD for Samsung Electronics in SA, Liebenberg took up a position in July 2012 as managing executive for Telkom Business Mobile, where he was responsible for driving strategy and execution for all mobile activities in Telkom Business.

Just less than four months later, in November, news emerged of Liebenberg's resignation - shortly after Telkom CEO Nombulelo "Pinky" Moholi handed in her notice. Vodacom confirmed at the time that Liebenberg would join the company, where he had previously headed the sales division, but could not give details.

Liebenberg also previously headed up BlackBerry's sub-Saharan African and fulfilled the role of country sales director at Motorola.

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