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Non-Executive Board Member
Mar 2025
Powering Connectivity Across Central & Eastern Europe.
CETIN International delivers high-quality telecommunications infrastructure across Slovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria, and Serbia. As a leading wholesale provider, we build and operate the backbone that keeps businesses, governments, and communities connected.
Our portfolio spans extensive fiber networks, mobile access infrastructure, private 5G solutions, data centers, and cybersecurity services—helping telecom operators and enterprises power the next generation of digital services. We invest in cutting-edge technology to enable fast, secure, and reliable connectivity, supporting the rapid expansion of 5G, IoT, and cloud solutions.
With a focus on innovation and partnership, we provide the invisible but essential foundation of digital transformation, ensuring seamless communication today and in the future.
#ConnectivityForYourSolution #TelecomInfrastructure #DigitalFuture
Non-Executive Board Member
Jul 2020
VimpelCom is one of the world’s largest integrated telecommunications services operators providing voice and data services through a range of traditional and broadband mobile and fixed technologies in Russia, Italy, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Armenia, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Algeria, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Zimbabwe.
VimpelCom’s operations around the globe cover territory with a total population of approximately 740 million people. VimpelCom provides services under the "Beeline", "Kyivstar", “WIND”, "Infostrada" “Mobilink”, “Banglalink”, “Telecel”, and “Djezzy” brands. As of 6 August, 2015 VimpelCom had 213 million mobile customers on a combined basis.
VimpelCom is headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands and is traded on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol "VIP".
With annual 2014 revenue of USD 19.6 billion and EBITDA of USD 8 billion, we are one of the largest telecommunications companies in the industry and have established the scale for successful growth and development of our group of companies going forward.
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2025
Non-Executive Board Member
Mar 2025
Powering Connectivity Across Central & Eastern Europe.
CETIN International delivers high-quality telecommunications infrastructure across Slovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria, and Serbia. As a leading wholesale provider, we build and operate the backbone that keeps businesses, governments, and communities connected.
Our portfolio spans extensive fiber networks, mobile access infrastructure, private 5G solutions, data centers, and cybersecurity services—helping telecom operators and enterprises power the next generation of digital services. We invest in cutting-edge technology to enable fast, secure, and reliable connectivity, supporting the rapid expansion of 5G, IoT, and cloud solutions.
With a focus on innovation and partnership, we provide the invisible but essential foundation of digital transformation, ensuring seamless communication today and in the future.
#ConnectivityForYourSolution #TelecomInfrastructure #DigitalFuture
2024
Non-Executive Board Member
Mar 2024
Add life to life.
Welcome to a vibrant and multiple award-winning telecommunications service provider. Our aim is to bring people and businesses together in what we do best, by offering mobile and fixed services, broadband connectivity and IPTV services to people, homes and businesses all over the UAE.
du serves nine million individual customers with its mobile, fixed line, broadband internet, and Home services over its 4G LTE network. du also caters to over 100,000 UAE businesses with its vast range of ICT and managed services. Since its launch in 2007, du has many UAE firsts to its credit, including introduction of Pay by the Second® billing system, IPTV and self-service portal.
du is ideally placed to support the realisation of UAE Vision 2021 and transformation of Dubai into a Smart City. We are the official strategic partner of the Smart Dubai Office and the platform provider for Smart Dubai.
Additionally, du supports innovative citywide sustainability initiatives aligned with the Dubai 2040 Urban Masterplan and Dubai’s commitment to helping the UAE achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals and UAE NetZero 2050 initiative.
We are building our telecommunication company by taking connectivity to the next level to fit the future and the people need. Therefore, we are providing carrier services, a data hub, internet exchange facilities and satellite service for broadcasters.
2020
Non-Executive Board Member
Aug 2020
Jazz, Pakistan’s number one 4G operator, and the largest internet and broadband service provider with over 75 million subscribers nationwide. With a legacy of more than 27 years, Jazz maintains market leadership through cutting-edge, integrated technology, the strongest brands and the largest portfolio of value added services in the industry.
Housing a nation-wide network of contact centers and an unparalleled fibre optic backbone of more than 25,000 kilometers, Jazz has already invested billions of dollars in the country to date. It also provides uninterrupted countrywide connectivity, unmatched customer services and international roaming in over 150 countries.
As a responsible entity, the company passionately supports education, health and environmental initiatives and promotes sustainable business practices.
Jazz offers exclusive & personalized tariff plans that empower customers and cater to the communication needs of a diverse group of people, from individuals to businessmen to corporate and multinationals.
Through its innovative services and products, Jazz is set to bring about a digital revolution that will enable and transform societies towards a more progressive Pakistan.
Non-Executive Board Member
Aug 2020
Launched in February 2005, with over 41 million subscribers over a decade, Banglalink was the catalyst in making mobile telephony an affordable option for consumers in Bangladesh. The initial success of Banglalink was based on a simple mission: “Bringing mobile telephony to the masses”.
Fueled with the strong core values of Customer-obsessed, Entrepreneurial, Innovative, Collaborative & Truthful, Banglalink is now working relentlessly to bring digital world to every customer to build a true digital Bangladesh, moving away from the traditional mobile operator to a tech company.
With customer experience being Banglalink’s core focus, digitalization has become a necessity to update the way customers engage, communicate, operate, and offer services from traditional way of business to Digital/Online.
Banglalink provides equal opportunities to employees and has always shown zero tolerance for any non-compliance activity. Banglalink’s HQ became the first certified Green Office by World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) in Bangladesh. The company has relatively a flat organization which enables employees to collaborate and work closer across the organization.
Banglalink Digital Communications Limited is a fully owned company of Telecom Ventures Ltd. which is a 100% owned subsidiary of Global Telecom Holding. VEON owns 51.9% shares of global telecom holding following a business combination in April 2011, between VEON ltd. (then VimpelCom) and wind telecom s.p.a. VEON is a NASDAQ and Euronext Amsterdam-listed global provider of connectivity, with the ambition to lead the personal internet revolution for the 240 million+ customers it currently serves, and many others in the years to come. It offers services to customers in 12 markets including Russia, Italy, Algeria, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Bangladesh, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Armenia and Georgia. VEON operates under the “Beeline”, “Kyivstar”, “WIND”, “Jazz”, “banglalink”, and “Djezzy” brands.
Non-Executive Board Member
Jul 2020
VimpelCom is one of the world’s largest integrated telecommunications services operators providing voice and data services through a range of traditional and broadband mobile and fixed technologies in Russia, Italy, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Armenia, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Algeria, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Zimbabwe.
VimpelCom’s operations around the globe cover territory with a total population of approximately 740 million people. VimpelCom provides services under the "Beeline", "Kyivstar", “WIND”, "Infostrada" “Mobilink”, “Banglalink”, “Telecel”, and “Djezzy” brands. As of 6 August, 2015 VimpelCom had 213 million mobile customers on a combined basis.
VimpelCom is headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands and is traded on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol "VIP".
With annual 2014 revenue of USD 19.6 billion and EBITDA of USD 8 billion, we are one of the largest telecommunications companies in the industry and have established the scale for successful growth and development of our group of companies going forward.
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