The chief executives of MTS of Russia, SK Telecom of Korea, Telstra of Australia, Telecom Italia and Zain, which operates in 22 countries, have all joined the board of the GSM Association, the global trade association for the mobile industry. Leonid A. Melamed of MTS, Shin-Bae Kim of SK Telecom, Solomon Trujillo of Telstra, Franco Bernabè of Telecom Italia and Dr Saad Al-Barrak of Zain join other high-level representatives of the world’s leading mobile operators on the GSMA’s 27-strong board.
“The outstanding calibre and the geographic breadth of our new board members reflects the GSMA’s position as the pre-eminent trade group for the global mobile industry,” said Craig Ehrlich, Chairman of the GSMA. “Their wealth of experience and leadership qualities will further enhance our ability to address the many strategic opportunities and challenges arising from the convergence of mobile services with the Internet, entertainment, computing, financial services and other sectors.”
Rob Conway, CEO of the GSMA and Member of the Board, added: “We are delighted to be joined on the board by so many industry leading CEOs. Their presence will ensure that the Association’s agenda fully echoes that of the global mobile industry and its more than three billion customers.”
The GSMA’s board now comprises:
Hutchison Mobile: Craig Ehrlich (Chairman), Board Member
AT&T: Bill Hague, Executive VP Roaming and Int.
Bharti Airtel: Manoj Kohli, President & CEO
China Mobile: Lu Xiangdong, VP, Member of governing board
China Unicom: Zhang Fan, CTO
GSMA: Rob Conway, CEO
KTF: Dr Young-Chu Cho, President and CEO
Mobilkom: Boris Nemsic, Group President & CEO
MTN: Phuthuma Nhleko, Group President & CEO
MTS: Leonid A. Melamed, CEO
NTT DoCoMo: Takanori Untano, EVP & CTO
Orange : Brigitte Bourgoin, EVP, Head of personal line of business
Orascom: Naguib Sawiris, Chairman & CEO
Singapore Telecom: Ng Yoke Weng, CIO/CTO
SK Telecom: Shin-Bae Kim, CEO
Smart: Napoleon Nazareno, President & CEO
Softbank: Tetsuzo Matsumoto, Chief Strategy Officer
T-Mobile: Joachim Horn, CTO
Telefonica: Vivek Dev, COO, Telefonica/O2
Telenor: Arve Johansen, Senior EVP/Deputy CEO, Head Asia operations
Telstra: Solomon Trujillo, CEO
TIM: Franco Bernabè, CEO
Turkcell: Muzaffer Akpinar, Board Member
VimpelCom: Alexander Izosimov, CEO
Vodafone: Terry Kramer, Group Strategy & HR Director, Chief of Staff
Zain: Dr Saad Al-Barrak, CEO
GSMA Executive Management Committee Chair: Stein Hansen, Senior Vice President, Telenor
About the GSMA:
The GSM Association (GSMA) is the global trade association representing more than 700 GSM mobile phone operators across 218 countries and territories of the world. In addition, more than 200 manufacturers and suppliers support the Association’s initiatives as key partners.
The primary goals of the GSMA are to ensure mobile phones and wireless services work globally and are easily accessible, enhancing their value to individual customers and national economies, while creating new business opportunities for operators and their suppliers. The Association’s members serve more than 2.5 billion customers – 85% of the world’s mobile phone users.
For more information please contact:
Mark Smith or David Pringle
GSMA
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