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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.