Sunil Taldar

Chief executive officer

On 1 July 2024, Sunil took over the role of CEO and has been appointed to the Board as an executive director. Sunil attends Audit and Risk Committee meetings. He chairs the Sustainability Committee and is invited to attend the Remuneration and Nominations Committee meetings.

Sunil joined Airtel Africa in October 2023 as director of transformation from Bharti Airtel. He leads and oversees key strategic initiatives aimed at transforming our business and operations. Sunil has more than 30 years’ business management experience in FMCG and telecoms.

Jaideep Paul

Chief financial officer

Jaideep has more than 30 years of leadership and financial experience – with 18 of these in the telecoms industry. He chairs our Finance Committee and is a Board member since June 2021. Jaideep attends Audit and Risk Committee and Sustainability Committee meetings. Jaideep is also a Board member of Bharti Airtel International (Netherlands) B.V., Bharti Airtel Africa B.V. and Airtel Networks Limited – all subsidiaries of the Group.

Before becoming our chief financial officer in 2014, Jaideep was CFO at Airtel Nigeria, Fairtrade LLC Muscat, and Bharti Retail. He has also held financial roles at Mumbai Circle and Bharti Airtel Delhi Circle, as well as senior roles at HCL, Telstra V-Com and Caltex.

Jaideep started his career at Pricewaterhouse and is a qualified chartered accountant.

Ian Ferrao

CEO, Airtel Money

Ian became chief executive officer of Airtel Money in 2022. 

He leads the business across 14 OpCos – driving financial performance, strategic direction and execution with a strong focus on product development and customer experience. 

Ian has spent the past 17 years leading telecoms companies in Africa, both as an entrepreneur and a corporate CEO. He joined Airtel Africa and the ExCo in 2019 to lead our East Africa operations in Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.

Rogany Ramiah

Chief human resources officer

Rogany leads and develops our people’s strategy to support our overall strategic direction. Her main areas of focus are succession and talent planning, diversity and inclusion, change and performance management, and enhancing our overall employee experience. Rogany also sits on the Sustainability Committee. 

Rogany has over 20 years’ experience in retail, media and onsulting to her role at Airtel Africa.

Dinesh Balsingh

Managing director and CEO, Airtel Nigeria

Dinesh is responsible for operations and strategic delivery in our largest market in Africa, Nigeria. 

He has over 24 years of experience in telecoms across Africa and India. Until 2024, he was managing director for Airtel Tanzania, where he supported significant business growth in a competitive market through strategic pricing, enhancing products, and disciplined execution.

Apoorva Mehrotra

Regional director, East Africa

Apoorva manages our financial performance and profitable growth in East Africa. He works with MDs in each market to develop strategy and execution plans for our business verticals, helps develop local leadership teams, and improves the coordination between Group-level and local operating teams. 

Apoorva has over 30 years’ experience in operations, sales and marketing across the telecoms, consumer durables and FMCG sectors. He joined Airtel Africa as chief commercial officer in Zambia in 2017 and became managing director in 2018

Anwar Soussa

Regional director, Francophone Africa

Anwar manages financial performance and profitable growth in our Francophone Africa operations. He works with MDs in each market to develop strategy and execution plans, helps develop local leadership teams and improves coordination between Group-level and local operating teams. 

Anwar is a seasoned executive with over 26 years of international experience in telecoms and technology across Africa, Europe and North America. He has been managing director at Airtel Uganda and managing director at Airtel Chad.

Jacques Barkhuizen

Chief information officer

Jacques joined Airtel Africa in 2023. He directs the implementation of our information technology and digital strategy, IT governance and cybersecurity by understanding business needs, designing solutions and driving our platform strategy for business growth. 

With diversified experience spanning more than 26 years across the retail, management consultancy, banking and telecoms sectors, Jacques brings a blend of operational excellence and innovation to Airtel Africa.

Martin P. Fréchette

Chief legal officer

Martin joined Airtel Africa in 2023. He advises on policy and legal strategies to ensure compliance with laws and regulations, manage risks and minimise litigious exposure for our operations and Board of directors. 

An accomplished lawyer, Martin has nearly 27 years of international experience in telecoms and technology across Africa and Europe.

Oliver Fortuin

CEO, Airtel Business (Africa)

Oliver leads on strategy, revenue, profitability and growth for Airtel Business, including FibreCo, enterprise and data centres. 

Oliver has over 31 years of experience in technology and telecoms in EMEA, US and Asia.

Ramakrishna Lella

Chief supply chain officer

Ramakrishna oversees the procurement of our network equipment and IT. He manages our tower companies and bandwidth, sales and distribution, supply chain for marketing and HR services, and warehouse operations and logistics. He also leads on our cost-reduction initiatives. 

Ramakrishna has spent more than 36 years in the telecoms industry, with more than 10 years of those years at Airtel Africa

Rohit Marwha

Chief marketing and sales officer

Rohit is responsible for revenue and customer growth for mobile and home broadband.

Rohit has 24 years’ experience in market operations. His journey at Airtel began when he joined Airtel India as a management trainee in 2001, where he became national head of marketing for market operations and then CEO of Airtel Maharashtra and Goa circle. 

He joined Airtel Africa in 2022 as director of marketing and home broadband.

Daddy Mukadi

Chief regulatory officer

Daddy is responsible for our regulatory and government relations strategy in all 14 operations. This includes obtaining all necessary resources (licence, spectrum), ensuring full compliance and actively helping to shape the policy and regulatory landscape toward best practice.

With a master’s degree in communications law (telecoms, broadcasting, media and space and satellite law) and as author of several volumes of a handbook for media law practitioners, Daddy brings a broad understanding of legal and regulatory affairs to his role at Airtel Africa.

Stephen Nthenge

Chief internal auditor

Stephen is responsible for our internal audit department. This provides independent auditing and advice on our risk management, governance and control processes in line with the purpose, role and responsibilities in the Audit Charter. He also oversees the integrity and reliability of our financial and operational information, the safeguarding of the company’s assets, and our compliance with laws, regulations, policies and procedures.

Stephen has more than 26 years’ experience in audit, enterprise risk and information security management.

Razvan Ungureanu

Chief technology officer

Razvan leads on our technology strategy and the delivery of this to the network leadership in each of our 14 markets. He focuses on strategic network thinking, design, rollout and the quality of our ongoing technical operations.

Razvan has 30 years’ experience in telecoms and has worked in Romania, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Dominican Republic.