Nigerians have assumed senior level
position at Bharti Airtel operators in Tazania and Uganda. The appointments,
which took place in the final quarter of 2013, had Ms. Vera Ogwa Onoja, former
Zonal Business Manager for North Central, Nigeria, appointed Regional
Operations Director for Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Mr. Oladapo Sorinolu, former Head of Corporate and Enterprise in
Nigeria appointed Enterprise Director for Uganda.
Ogwa, who joined the company in 2003,
had worked in various capacities in the Sales and Distribution Group. During her
tenure as Zonal Business Manager, North Central, Nigeria, she was able to drive
market growth with her team’s consistency in exceeding Primary Sales Targets
while growing market share, which earned her region the Best Zone Award in 2012.
Her team also pioneered the
Airtel Express Shop on wheels, a one stop mobile shop, which till date, has
added the advantage of bringing Airtel closer to its high net worth customers.
Ms. Ogwa started her professional
career at Citibank Nigeria in year 2000 and had a brief stint with Triumph Bank
before crossing to the Telecom industry in 2003 when she joined the corporate
sales department of Econet Wireless. In 2007, she became Regional Sales Officer,
North Central Region of the company then under the name Celtel and by 2009; she
had risen to the Regional Manager position.
In 2010, she became the Zonal
Business Manager North Central of Airtel; a position she occupied till her
recent appointment.
Ms. Ogwa is an alumnus of the
Lagos Business School, Harvard Business School and India Institute of
Management.
The new Enterprise Director for
Uganda, Mr. Oladapo Sorinolu, joined Airtel in June 2012, from Globacom Limited
where he served as Head of Glo-1 Enterprise. During his time in Airtel Nigeria,
he led his team to achieve significant growth in revenue. He was also positioned
Airtel as a major player in the Nigerian Enterprise market.
Sorinolu started his over 22 years
professional career spanning across FMCG and Telecom Industries as a sales
manager at Beauty Care range, a
Pharmaceutical product organization and later became the Regional Manager,
Lagos, West and Mid-West with renowned manufacturing and marketing conglomerate
PZ Cussons plc.
He later joined HPZ limited-a joint
venture between PZ Cussons and Haier Group as General Manger Commercial
marketing goods under the name Haier Thermocool. He later joined Globacom
Limited.
Speaking on the appointment, the
Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer of Airtel Nigeria, Mr. Segun
Ogunsanya, stated that Bharti-Airtel was a global business with a human
resource structure designed to draw talents from across the various geographies
in the pursuit of its objectives.
He restated the company’s commitment
to developing indigenous talents and giving them leadership opportunities
anywhere their skills and expertise are required. According to him, global
businesses take expatriation seriously in their quest to develop a talent pool
of employees with multi-geographical professional experience to take their
businesses to the next level.
Ogwa and Sorinolu join a corps of
other Nigerian professionals working in the Bharti-Airtel group as expatriates.
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