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Alexander Izosimov Comes as Chairman of GSMA

The board of the GSMA, a global body for the mobile industry, has elected Alexander Izosimov, the Group CEO of VimpelCom, as its new chairman for a two-year term. Bill Hague, executive VP of AT&T, is elected as deputy chairman. And CEOs of 14 leading mobile operators come on the Board. 

Jon Fredrick Baksaas, the CEO of Telenor, Dato' Sri Jamaludin Ibrahim, managing director, president and Group CEO of TM International, and Eduardo Barnetche Girard, head of International Roaming & International Long Distance at America Moviles, have joined the new 26-member GSMA board, which now includes the CEOs of 14 leading mobile operator groups and represents 69% of global mobile users. 

  The board of the GSMA comprises: 

•   -- Chairman, Alexander Izosimov, Group CEO, VimpelCom

•   -- Deputy Chairman, Bill Hague, EVP, AT&T

•   -- GSMA CEO, Rob Conway

•   -- Airtel Bharti, Manoj Kohli, Group CEO

•   -- America Movil, Eduardo Barnetche Girard, Head of International Roaming

•      & International Long Distance

•   -- China Mobile, Lu Xiangdong, Vice President

•   -- China Unicom, Zhang Fan, CTO

•   -- Hutchison, Craig Ehrlich, Director

•   -- KTF, Haing Min Kwon, President & CEO

•   -- Mobilkom Austria, Boris Nemsic, Group CEO

•   -- MTN Group, Phuthuma Nhleko, Group President & CEO

•   -- MTS, Mikhail Shamolin, Group President & CEO

•   -- Orange FT, Brigitte Bourgoin, EVP, Head of Personal Line of Business

•   -- Orascom, Naguib Sawiris, Group CEO

•   -- SKT, Shin-Bae Kim, President & CEO

•   -- Singtel, Ng Yoke Weng, Group CTO/CIO

•   -- Smart, Napoleon Nazareno, President & CEO

•   -- Softbank Mobile, Tetsuzo Matsumoto, Senior EVP

•   -- Telecom Italia, Franco Bernabe, Group CEO

•   -- Telefonica, Vivek Dev, Group COO

•   -- Telenor, Jon Fredrik Baksaas, Group President & CEO

•   -- Telstra, Sol Trujillo, CEO

•   -- TM Group, Dato' Jamaludin Ibrahim, Group CEO

•   -- T-Mobile, Joachim Horn, Group CTO

•   -- Vodafone, Terry Kramer, Group Strategy & Business Improvement Director

•   -- Zain, Saad H. Al-Barrak, Group CEO

The GSMA (The GSM Association) is the global trade association representing more than 700 GSM mobile phone operators across 218 countries and territories of the world. 

Photo courtesy: GSM Association

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