Bharti Airtel’s Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer (International) Manoj Kohli is relocating to India, effective January 1, 2014, following a reshuffle of its African operations.
Kohli is in-charge of Airtel’s operations in Africa, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. He is currently based at Airtel’s Africa headquarters in Nairobi.
Bharti Airtel, India’s largest mobile operator in subscriber terms, also announced that Christian de Faria will join Airtel Africa on September 16, 2013. He will be based out of Nairobi and will report to Manoj Kohli.
Faria will immediately take charge of Anglophone operations and commence a comprehensive orientation encompassing Airtel Africa headquarters functions, Francophone and Nigeria regions.
He will assume overall responsibility as CEO-Airtel Africa from January 1, 2014.
“Manoj has successfully embedded our business model and the Airtel brand in Africa, and will now provide governance oversight to the international operations and be involved with the group strategic matters,” Sunil Bharti Mittal, Chairman, Bharti Airtel, said.