{"id":9837,"date":"2015-08-24T07:06:30","date_gmt":"2015-08-24T07:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gsma.com\/newsroom\/?p=9837"},"modified":"2015-08-24T07:06:30","modified_gmt":"2015-08-24T07:06:30","slug":"gsma-appoints-mats-granryd-as-director-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gsma.com\/newsroom\/press-release\/gsma-appoints-mats-granryd-as-director-general\/","title":{"rendered":"GSMA APPOINTS MATS GRANRYD AS DIRECTOR GENERAL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>London:<\/strong> The GSMA today announced the appointment of Mats Granryd as Director General and Member of the GSMA Board. Granryd, who served most recently as President and CEO of Tele2 Group, will assume leadership of the GSMA on 1 January 2016.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am very pleased to welcome Mats Granryd as the GSMA\u2019s new Director General,\u201d said Jon Fredrik Baksaas, Chairman of the GSMA. \u201cServing more than 3.7 billion unique subscribers globally, the mobile industry has fundamentally changed how individuals, businesses and governments alike communicate, interact and conduct their everyday lives. However, there is still so much more to be done in extending the transformative effects of mobile and Mats is ideally positioned to lead the GSMA as we move forward in connecting the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Granryd joined Tele2 as President and CEO in 2010. Previously, he spent 15 years in a variety of roles at Ericsson, most recently as Head of Northern Europe and Central Asia. Prior to joining Ericsson, he was a management consultant in telecom strategies at ARRIGO and Andersen Consulting. Granryd holds a M.Sc. from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m proud and honoured to be joining the GSMA at such an exciting time in the industry\u2019s development,\u201d said Mats Granryd. \u201cAs Jon Fredrik noted, we have made tremendous progress in our industry\u2019s relatively short lifetime, but we have significant opportunities ahead of us as we look to not only connect the unconnected, but also deliver a vast range of new technologies, products and services that will improve our lives and allow us to engage more effectively with our environments. I look forward to working with Jon Fredrik, the GSMA Board and our members in extending the positive impact of our industry for our customers worldwide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">-ENDS-<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>About the GSMA<\/strong><br \/>\nThe GSMA represents the interests of mobile operators worldwide, uniting nearly 800 operators with more than 250 companies in the broader mobile ecosystem, including handset and device makers, software companies, equipment providers and internet companies, as well as organisations in adjacent industry sectors. The GSMA also produces industry-leading events such as Mobile World Congress, Mobile World Congress Shanghai and the Mobile 360 Series conferences.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, please visit the GSMA corporate website at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsma.com\/\">www.gsma.com<\/a>. Follow the GSMA on Twitter: @GSMA.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Media Contacts:<br \/>\n<\/strong>For the GSMA<br \/>\nCharlie Meredith-Hardy<br \/>\n+44 7917 298428<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:CMeredith-Hardy@webershandwick.com\">CMeredith-Hardy@webershandwick.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>GSMA Press Office<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:press@gsma.com\">pressoffice@gsma.com\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London: The GSMA today announced the appointment of Mats Granryd as Director General and Member of the GSMA Board. Granryd, who served most recently as President and CEO of Tele2 Group, will assume leadership of the GSMA on 1 January 2016. \u201cI am very pleased to welcome Mats Granryd as the GSMA\u2019s new Director General,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":9844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"algolia_discover_type":[6627],"class_list":["post-9837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-release","algolia_discover_type-article"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.8 (Yoast SEO v27.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>GSMA APPOINTS MATS GRANRYD AS DIRECTOR GENERAL - Newsroom<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gsma.com\/newsroom\/press-release\/gsma-appoints-mats-granryd-as-director-general\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"GSMA APPOINTS MATS GRANRYD AS DIRECTOR GENERAL\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"London: The GSMA today announced the appointment of Mats Granryd as Director General and Member of the GSMA Board. 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