Tag: Safaricom CEO

Atwoli cautions Safaricom boss against axing employees

Atwoli added that it was insensitive for Ndegwa to bring about drastic changes to Safaricom while infringing on the rights of employees.

Safaricom feels Covid blow as half-year net profit drops

Safaricom recorded drops in M-Pesa, voice and messaging revenue as Covid-19 pandemic hits East Africa’s largest company.

Safaricom gets new CEO, taps Kenyan Peter Ndegwa

Ndegwa joins the telecommunications giant from Diageo PLC, where he was the managing director of Diageo Continental Europe.

Away with cemeteries: Is cremation the way out?

By Harriet James @harriet86jim The death of Safaricom CEO, Bob Collymore sent shockwaves across Kenya and the world. The Guyanese-born-British businessman, who died after battling cancer, will be remembered for his leadership in a corporation that assisted in placing the nation in the global scene in the financial and technological spheres. What’s more striking is that […]

Why Safaricom picked Michael Joseph as interim CEO

Peter Okong’o @PeopleDailyKe The market expects the successor to Bob Collymore to continue Safaricom’s path of investing in innovation and data services to keep the integrated communications company at the top of competition. Safaricom delivered a strong financial performance in the financial year ended March 31, 2019, with a 13.1 per cent growth in EBIT (Earnings […]

How media bid Bob farewell

Lewis Njoka @Lewisnjoka The death of Safaricom chief executive Bob Collymore received wide local and international media coverage, with many news channels describing him as a corporate titan and a model citizen. People Daily, the leading free newspaper in Kenya, dedicated its front page to Collymore’s death with the headline, “Bob saw his death coming”. It carried […]

Michael Joseph addresses calls to have Sylvia Mulinge appointed Safaricom CEO

Social media was on Tuesday evening divided on whether East Africa’s leading telecommunications firm, Safaricom, should appoint a Kenyan as the company’s Chief Executive Officer. So furious was the debate that the name of Safaricom’s corporate executive, Sylvia Wairimu Mulinge — who holds the position of chief customer officer –, trended on Twitter, with a […]