By Lehlohonolo Lehana.
Telecommunications group MTN has announced a raft of changes to key leadership roles that will see Frédéric Schepens, CEO of fibre infrastructure business Bayobab, leaving the group with immediate effect.
Schepens leaves the telecommunications group “effective immediately”, MTN said. “We thank Frédéric for his contributions and wish him success in his future endeavours.”
Other changes include:
- The appointment of Wanda Matandela as the new CEO of MTN Cameroon, effective 1 March 2025. Matandela is currently chief commercial operations officer at MTN South Africa.
- Mitwa Ng’ambi, CEO of MTN Cameroon, will move to the same position at MTN Côte d’Ivoire, effective 1 March 2025, as Djibril Ouattara takes early retirement. Prior to her role in Cameroon, Ng’ambi was CEO of MTN Rwanda.
- Mazen Mroue, MTN Group’s chief technology and information officer, will take on the additional responsibility of CEO of the digital infrastructure business. “This new role will incorporate the mobility and fibre businesses of Bayobab, along with executing our data centre strategy as we position MTN Group for growth and profitability in the development of AI across Africa.”
MTN Group President and CEO Ralph Mupita extended his best wishes to all incoming and outgoing colleagues and expressed confidence in the business’s internal succession bench-strength.