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Telenor ASA — Board/Management Information 2016
Jun 14, 2016
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Board/Management Information
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Telenor appoints new CEOs in Pakistan and Bulgaria
Telenor appoints new CEOs in Pakistan and Bulgaria
Telenor Group has on 14 June 2016 appointed Michael Foley as
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Telenor Bulgaria and Irfan
Wahab Khan as CEO of Telenor Pakistan. The new appointments
will be effective from 1 August 2016, and both Foley and
Khan will be members of the Group Executive Management team.
Michael Foley joined Telenor in July 2014 when he was
appointed CEO of Telenor Pakistan. Foley has more than 30
years of sales, marketing and operational experience in the
telecom and retail sectors from both advanced and growth
markets. He has lived and worked in more than 11 countries,
including previous experience from Bulgaria, where he held a
managerial position in the telecom industry from 2004 to
Irfan Khan comes from the position of Deputy CEO and Chief
Marketing Officer of Telenor Pakistan. Mr. Khan has been
with Telenor for 12 years and was the first employee in
Telenor Pakistan when he started as Executive Vice President
and Head of Corporate Affairs Division in 2004. Since then
he has served in various positions within Telenor Group both
in Asia and Europe, including Vice President Devices and
Vice President and Head of Asia Distribution.
Stein Erik Vellan, the current CEO of Telenor Bulgaria, will
take on the role as Head of Telenor Group Corporate Support
from 1 August 2016, and will step down from the Group's
Executive Management team. Vellan has been CEO of Telenor's
operations in Bulgaria since 2013 when Telenor acquired the
mobile operator Globul.