MTN Group has announced the appointment of Selorm Adadevoh, the CEO of MTN Ghana, to the new role of MTN Group Chief Commercial Officer.
Mr Adadevoh, a Ghanaian, will take over from Jens Schulte-Bockum, who is stepping down as Group Chief Operating Officer at the end of his contract term in March 2024.
Simultaneously, Stephen Blewett, currently MTN Operations Executive, Markets, will assume the role of CEO of MTN Ghana. Selorm Adadevoh will become a member of the MTN Group Executive Committee.
Jens Schulte-Bockum will step down from his executive role on March 31, 2024, but will remain a non-executive director on the boards of major subsidiaries – MTN South Africa, MTN Nigeria, and Bayobab.
“We congratulate Selorm on his new appointment and thank him for successfully leading the company and steering it through challenging times, and for his hard work and commitment to MTN Ghana over the past five and a half years. We have no doubt that he will excel in his new role,” said MTN Ghana Board Chairman, Dr. Ishmael Yamson.
Selorm Adadevoh, the newly appointed MTN Group Chief Commercial Officer, joined MTN in 2018 as the CEO of MTN Ghana. Before his role at MTN, he held key positions at Digicel, a Caribbean mobile network operator, and Millicom in Africa. Throughout his career, he has also worked in various roles in the USA, UK, and Latin America.
Since joining MTN, Adadevoh played a crucial role in transforming the MTN Ghana business and driving the Ambition 2025 strategy for MTN Ghana, aiming to become a platform player in the industry.
Stephen Blewett, the new CEO of MTN Ghana, rejoined MTN in July 2023 as the Operations Executive for Markets, overseeing the Group’s smaller West and Central Africa markets and providing broader operations support in that region. Prior to this, he served as the Chief Operating Officer of Digicel and spent seven years at MTN as the CEO for MTN Benin and then MTN Cameroon.
“We welcome Stephen into the MTN Ghana family and look forward to working with him to move the company forward to achieve our Ambition 2025 strategy and beyond,” Chairman Yamson added.