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Jan 15, 2021
Seacom has announced that its current chief technical officer (CTO), Claes Segelberg, has resigned.
Segelberg has been with the ICT company almost since its inception in 2009 and has contributed nine years of service to Seacom.
Prenesh Padayachee, former CTO at Internet Solutions and previously chief sales and marketing officer at Telkom Openserve, officially took over as Seacom Group chief digital officer (CDO) on 4 January 2021.
In addition to the CTO’s responsibilities, Padayachee will also be absorbing the CIO.
Byron Clatterbuck, the outgoing Group CEO of Seacom, comments: “Claes has been a true asset to the Seacom team, playing a pivotal role in shaping our organisation into the industry leader it is today. We wish him the very best with his future endeavours, and are grateful that he will be staying with us until the end of March 2021 to ensure a seamless handover into the capable hands of Prenesh.”
SEACOM has appointed Oliver Fortuin as its new CEO – effective 4 January 2021. He will succeed Byron Clatterbuck, who joined the ICT company in 2012 as its Chief Commercial Officer and became SEACOM Group CEO in February 2015.
Fortuin, who is currently the Group Chief Enterprise Officer at MTN, has worked for over two decades in the ICT sector, across South Africa and the rest of Africa, with industry-leading organisations such as IBM, BT, and, most recently, MTN.
“The SEACOM team has built an excellent data connectivity platform in the markets where we operate. We now hope to expand upon this, as well as to develop more industry-leading services that today’s corporate customers in Africa require. Our key focus will be to strengthen our customer base in the corporate segment by offering a wider range of services that provide greater value to our customers, and can help SEACOM capture more share of wallet in this space.”