[ 2016-11-21 ]

MTN Ghana Boss is Africa's Telecoms CEO of the Year
MTN Ghana CEO, Ebenezer Twum Asante has been named
overall CEO of the Year in Africa's telecom
industry at the recently held AfricaCom Awards.

AfricaCom is the continent’s most prominent
annual industry awards for the telecommunications
and information technology sector, and Ghana
dominated this year's awards.

This top award to Eben Asante adds another feather
to his cap, coming weeks after he was named CEO of
the Year within the MTN Group.

When he won the MTN Group top award, the accolades
recognized his competence and strong leadership
qualities, emotional intelligence, focus on the
bigger picture, providing vision and strategy,
demonstrates problem solving capability and
delivers value.

Asante was also lauded as person who drives
culture and change, builds stakeholder
relationships and achieves both financial and
non-financial results.

“He is also an exceptional leader who
understands self, is emotionally matured, shows
humility and compassion, exemplifies ethics and
integrity and communicates effectively," a
statement from MTN said.

The AfricaCom award was in recognition of
consistent growth of MTN Ghana under his visionary
leadership.

Eben Asante is the first Ghanaian-born CEO of MTN
Ghana, after serving two years as CEO for MTN
Rwanda.

He has overseen the healthy performance of MTN
Ghana, including growing market share consistently
even in the face of a market largely described as
saturated.

Recently, MTN Ghana subscriber base saw a 3
percent growth to over 18 million, shooting it
total market share to almost 50 per cent, and
mobile data market share to over 60 per cent.

Eben Asante led MTN Ghana to acquire 4G LTE
spectrum late last year at a whopping
US$67.5million and invested an additional
US$18million for initial deployment within just
six months, making it the first telco to start 4G
LTE services in Ghana.

Under him, MTN is in the process of offloading
shares to local investors to give Ghanaians a
greater stake in a company that has enjoyed
tremendous success in this country.

Eben Asante told Adom News he is humbled by the
laurels and he gives all the credit to his strong
leadership team & the gallant staff of MTN Ghana,
who make a difference each day.

"I'm only there to serve, provide direction,
vision and create great execution environment for
the team to perform," he said.

He said the awards "tells about our vision and
digital strategy to focus on customers, people in
the organisation - it also shows innovation is on
course."

The MTN Ghana Boss said he will continue to
provide serviced-based leadership that should
convince our customers the future can only be
great.

His staff say they love him for his principle
called "the stretch", where he insists that good
is not enough because excellence is within human
reach.

Meanwhile, Ghana's dominance at the AfricaCom
awards was also marked by five other awards,
including Tigo Ghana's two awards, notably the
widely coveted Changing Lives Award for their
Mobile Birth Registration project.

Other wieners were Huawei, which scooped the prize
for Delivering Excellence in Customer Experience
and Most Significant LTE Development, the latter
alongside Namibia’s MTC.

Liquid Telecom picked Best Marketing Campaign for
AfriCan and Mauritius Telecom had Best App for
Africa with its Traffic Watch Mauritius.

The judges’ most notable entry came from BRCK
with their Kio Kit – Digital Classroom in a Box
which won Best Pan-African Initiative.

There were over 100 entries with 13 overall
winners.

Adam Thompson from KNect365 TMT, the organisers,
said this year’s awards saw an exceptional
shortlist of entries.

The judging panel were thoroughly impressed with
the quality of entries and the range of industry
projects carried out.

Source - Adomfmonline

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