Seacom Group Appoints Oliver Fortuin As New Group CEO
Seacom Group Appoints Oliver Fortuin As New Group CEO. Former MTN Group Chief Enterprise Officer, Oliver Fortuin is now the CEO of submarine cable operator Seacom Group.
Fortuin has extensive experience in the ICT sector and will be a valuable member of Seacom’s executive management. He holds an MBA from The Open University and held positions such as being a Managing Director at i1 Solutions and a Director HP Services at Hewlett-Packard.
He will be replacing Byron Clatterbuck who resigned and will be ending his eight year tenure with the company. Clatterbuck joined Seacom in 2012 as its Chief Commercial Officer and became the CEO in 2015.
In an Interview with ITWeb he said, “However, I did not want to make the final move until we had the right leader lined up to take over the leadership of Seacom, as we push further into African markets and continue our growth in the enterprise segment. I am very pleased and confident to be handing over the leadership of Seacom to Oliver Fortuin, who will be ably supported by Seacom’s executive team.”
Seacom has been one of the leading companies in the IPT and data transmission markets in the service provider sector in the continent, serving most hyper-scalers, cloud players and global telecoms. Seacom is a privately owned company; this allows it to offer innovative services that will be less expensive than its competitors.
Seacom Chairperson Pieter Uys said, “Mr Clatterbuck has been instrumental in shifting Seacom from a subsea cable operator to becoming Africa’s leading internet and data transmission provider – offering services to other service providers, direct to corporates and more recently into the consumer market with the WonderNet brand. The shareholders and employees of Seacom would like to thank Mr Clatterbuck for his valuable contributions over the last eight years.” in an interview with ITWeb.
