Ishmael Yamson

Chairman

Ishmael Evans Yamson has over 4 decades of experience in corporate management. He spent 20 years working in senior executive positions in Unilever operations in Ghana, the United Kingdom, Holland and other parts of Africa. He has held many private sector positions including President of the Ghana National Chamber of Commerce, Ghana Employers’ Association and the Private Enterprise Foundation in Ghana. He was also a founding director of the Ghana Stock Exchange and the Centre for Policy Analysis. He was also a founding Director of the Commonwealth Business Council

Selorm Adadevoh

Chief Executive Officer

Selorm is the chief executive officer of MTN, Ghana, appointed in June 2018. Prior to this, he was the chief executive officer of Digicel, Haiti. Selorm is a seasoned telecoms and financial services business leader with over 22 years of experience spanning several years in the UK, USA, Caribbean and Africa. In addition to extensive C-level telecoms experience across various operators, Selorm has over 10 years of consulting experience. First, as a technology consultant for Hewlett-Packard (HP) Consulting in the UK, and in the USA, as a management consultant for L.E.K. Consulting where he focused on mergers & acquisitions and private equity consulting projects. Since joining MTN, Selorm has been instrumental in consolidating MTN Ghana’s market leadership position and driving new growth opportunities in Digital, Fintech, Home and Data more broadly. In his time as CEO, MTN Ghana has entrenched itself as the leader in customer experience and innovation in the Ghana telecoms industry with its #1 position in NPS, the launch of 4G+ and VoLTE, the relaunch of MyMTN app, launch of the Ayoba super app and the launch of a Fintech Open API platform to commence the journey towards MTN’s Ambition 2025. Selorm is a member of the African Leadership Network (ALN) and a lifetime supporter of Liverpool FC. He holds an MBA in finance from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, USA and a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana. Other directorships: DIAL (Washington DC, USA), Sahel Grains Limited (Ghana), aYo Holdings Ghana, MobileMoney Limited.

Mr. Felix Addo

Non-Executive Director

Mr. Felix Addo is a Member of the Ghana Institute of Chartered Accountants with over 30 years’ experience. He served as a Partner at PwC over an 18-year period across a wide range of engagements in both developed and emerging markets, including transactions, insolvencies and turnarounds, financial and forensic audits and various projects in both the private and public sectors. He has since developed a portfolio of board roles in the consumer, financial services and the oil and gas sectors. He currently serves on the boards of various organizations including Guinness Ghana Breweries (Chairman), Ghana Association of Restructuring and Insolvency Advisors (President), as well as various for profit and non-profit organisations.

Nana Ama Botchway

Non-Executive Director

Ms. NanaAma Botchway is the founder and managing partner of N. Dowuona & Company, a leading corporate and commercial law firm in Ghana. Her main areas of practice are mergers and acquisitions, energy and infrastructure. Ms. Botchway regularly advises local and global companies on cross border mergers, acquisitions, energy and infrastructure projects. She began her career in New York where she worked as a lawyer at two leading global law firms, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and Cooley, and as an audit accountant at Deloitte Touche Tomahtsu. Ms. Botchway is a graduate of Princeton University, New York University’s Stern School of Business and Columbia University School of Law. She brings a wealth of experience to MTN Ghana having served as a non-executive director on a number of boards, including Ghana Airports Company Ltd., the Ghana Petroleum Sovereign Wealth Funds, GHL Bank Ltd, where she chaired the Remuneration Committee, and Brainworks Capital.

Sugentharen Perumal

Non-Executive Director

Sugentharen Perumal is currently the Chief Financial Officer of MTN Iran, a position he has held for the past 4 and half years. Prior to joining MTN, he was an Audit Director at one of South Africa’s largest audit and advisory firms, SizweNtsalubaGobodo. Effective 01 June 2018, Sugentharen will join MTN Group as Executive for Group Finance Operations. Sugentharen is a highly accomplished finance professional with significant experience in strategic and operational planning and management of Telecommunications companies in the Middle East and Africa. As an Audit Professional, he accumulated expertise and proficiency in the private sector as well as the public sector. This experience ranges over multiple industries including telecommunications, energy and utilities. Sugentharen holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree (Accounting and Management Accounting) from the University of Natal. He is also a member of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants CA (SA). Other Directorships: MTN Yemen and MTN Afghanistan.

Ms. Tsholofelo Molefe

Non-Executive Director

Ms. Tsholofelo Molefe is the current Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of MTN Group. Ms. Molefe is a qualified Chartered Accountant, and prior to joining MTN, had direct exposure to the telecommunications industry, having been the Group Chief Financial Officer at Telkom SA SOC Ltd, since 2018, as well as its Chief Risk Officer and Deputy CFO prior to that. Ms. Molefe played a key role in the strategic transformation programmes at Telkom. Before joining Telkom, Ms. Molefe was the Finance Director of Eskom Holdings and an Executive Director of the company’s main board. She has also held various other roles at Eskom Holdings. Ms. Molefe has worked in the banking sector for FNB, ABSA Group and Liberty Group in various roles. She brings with her extensive financial and accounting experience, with a strong background in enterprise risk management and internal audit. Ms. Molefe’s track record of financial leadership will be of great value to Scancom PLC.

Fatima Daniels

Non-Executive Director

Fatima worked in corporate positions ranging from regional and corporate finance to general manager of telecommunications for over a decade. She is a member of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants. Fatima has extensive JSE listed company Board experiences. Other directorships: MTN Syria, MTN Sudan, MTN Benin, Momentum Metropolitan Holdings Ltd, Clicks Group Ltd, Rand Refinery (Pty)Ltd and AfriSam South Africa(Pty)Ltd.

Mr. Kofi Dadzie

Non-Executive Director

Mr. Dadzie is an experienced digital entrepreneur who has built innovative products and services and taken these to market successfully, servicing customers across multiple geographies and 80+ languages. As one of the pioneers in the establishment of Rancard Solutions Ltd. in 2001, where he was a Chief Software Architect, Mr. Dadzie rose to the position of Chief Executive Officer, and currently serves as a non-executive director of Rancard Solutions Holdings and subsidiaries. Inspired through leadership seminars in the Aspen Institute, he recently consulted for and joined the Mastercard Foundation with a focus on empowering young African women and men to harness the digital economy. Mr. Dadzie also serves as a director of IC Asset Managers and is a member of the governing board of Genius Hive Music Academy.

Rosie Ebe-Arthur

Non-Executive Director

Ms. Rosie Ebe-Arthur is a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) and brings along with her a plethora of experience from the United Kingdom and Africa. Ms. Ebe-Arthur was previously employed by Ernst & Young as Associate Director of People Services, Africa Projects, South Africa with responsibility for Sub Saharan Africa. Ms. Ebe-Arthur then served at Ecobank Transnational Incorporated as Group Human Resources Business Partner for Domestic Bank working across 33 countries. She then moved to Standard Chartered Bank rising to Head of Human Resources, West Africa with responsibility for Nigeria, Ghana, Cote D’Ivoire, Cameroun, Gambia and Sierra Leone. Ms. Ebe-Arthur is currently the Group Head, Human Capital Management & Development for First Bank Nigeria and Subsidiaries and is accountable for setting the People Strategy across the Banks footprint in Africa, United Kingdom and the representative offices in France and China.

Ebenezer Asante

Non-Executive Director

Ebenezer Asante was the first Ghanaian to head MTN Ghana. He is currently the Vice President of MTN Group’s West and Central Africa (WECA) Region. Prior to assuming this role, he was Vice President of MTN Group’s Southern and East Africa and Ghana (SEAGHA) Region, after having served as CEO of MTN Rwanda for almost two years. Ebenezer joined MTN Ghana in 2008 as Sales & Distribution Executive. Prior to joining MTN Ghana, he spent 13 years with Unilever, where he held various positions, including managing director for Zambia and customer development director and member of the Unilever Ghana Board of directors. He holds a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in economics and statistics from the University of Ghana, a post-graduate diploma in management from Henley Management College (UK) and was part of MTN’s Global Advancement Programme (GAP) in 2010. He also participated in executive level and general management development programmes at the Ashridge Business School (UK), Harvard and INSEAD (Paris). Other directorships: MTN Cameron Limited; MTN Cote d‘Ivoire S.A; and Standard Chartered Bank Ghana Limited.