GSMA announced that it elected new members of the GSMA Board for the two-year period from January 2019 through December 2020.
The GSMA Board has also elected Stephane Richard, chairman and chief executive officer of Orange Group as chair, and Chua Sock Koong, group chief executive officer of Singtel Group as deputy chair.
GSMA Board Members for the 2019-2020 Term
Juan Carlos Archila, executive vice president of International Relationships, America Movil
Susan Johnson, executive vice president, Global Connections and Supply Chain, AT&T
Jamaludin bin Ibrahim, group chief executive officer, Axiata Group
Gopal Vittal, chief executive officer of Bharti Airtel
Li Zhengmao, executive vice president, China Mobile
Liu Guiqing, executive vice president, China Telecom
Shao Guanglu, executive vice president, China Unicom
Srini Gopalan, member of the Board of Management, Deutsche Telekom
Hatem Dowidar, chief executive officer, International, Etisalat Group
Mats Granryd, director general, GSMA
Christian Salbaing, deputy chairman, Europe, Hutchison
Rob Shuter, group chief executive officer of MTN Group
Alexey Kornya, chief executive officer, MTS
Kazuhiro Yoshizawa, chief executive officer, NTT DOCOMO
Stephane Richard, chief executive officer, Orange Group
Mathew Oommen, president, Reliance Jio
Chua Sock Koong, chief executive officer of Singtel Group
Jung Ho Park, chief executive officer, SK Telecom
Marcelo Claure, chief operating officer, SoftBank Group
Eng. Nasser S Al Nasser, chief executive officer, STC Group
Julio Linares Lopez, member of the Board of Telefonica Companies, Telefonica
Sigve Brekke, chief executive officer, Telenor Group
Andrew Penn, chief executive officer, Telstra
Kaan Terzioglu, chief executive officer, Turkcell
Rima Qureshi, chief strategy officer, Verizon
Vivek Badrinath, CEO for Africa, Middle East and Asia-Pacific Region, Vodafone Group
Sunil Bharti Mittal, Founder and Chairman of Bharti Enterprises and current GSMA Chair, will step down from the Board at the end of 2018.
Mittal served as a member of the GSMA Board from 2005 through 2008 and then again as Chair from 2016 through 2018.