Advocacy Group Honours Airtel Boss

A reception was recently held to honour Mr Segun Ogunsanya for his appointment as MD&CEO, Airtel Nigeria.

The reception was at the instance of an Advocacy Group of past CEOs, executive directors of large multinationals.

The advocacy group of past CEOs and Executive Directors of large multinationals is led by Dr. Michael Omolayole.

The group recently held a reception at the exclusive Metropolitan Club, Victoria Island to applaud Ogunsanya’s appointment as Chief Executive of the Nigerian operations of the world’s fourth largest telecommunications company.

Ogunsanya has been in charge at Airtel Nigeria since March 23 this year when he formally took over from erstwhile MD/CEO, Rajan Swaroop, who remains on the company’s Board though now back in his native country, India.

He takes over from Rajan Swaroop, who has successfully led operations at Airtel Nigeria for the past two years.

Rajan will be appointed as Non-Executive Director on the Board of Airtel Nigeria following the completion of the transition process and will continue to work closely with the Airtel Nigeria leadership team.

Ogunsanya has over 24 years of rich industry experience across multiple geographies, organisations and diverse sectors such as Coca Cola, Banking and Arthur Anderson.

His last assignment was with The Coca-Cola Company, where he started his career in Finance and gradually transitioned into senior leadership roles with the various bottling operations of The Coca-Cola Company across diverse markets and countries in Africa.

In his last stint, as the Managing Director and CEO of Nigerian Bottling Company, he was responsible for over $1bn revenue operations.

A Chartered Accountant, he holds a Bachelors of Science in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from University of Ife, Nigeria.