MTN Group has announced the appointment of Yolanda Cuba as Group Chief Digital and Fintech Officer.
Yolanda will join the MTN Group Executive Committee reporting to the Group CEO, Rob Shuter.
In her role, Yolanda will lead the group’s strategic expansion of its financial services and digital solutions efforts and transformation into a digital operator.
She brings extensive telecommunications and leadership experience to MTN Group from Vodacom where she served as Chief Officer of Strategy and M&A.
She was previously the CEO of Vodafone Ghana for a three-year period, a role that saw her named Telecom CEO of the Year in 2018.
“This role gives me the opportunity to drive digital innovation and financial inclusion across the Group’s vast footprint. I’m really looking forward to the new challenge and being part of the MTN leadership team,” said Yolanda.
On her appointment, Mr Shuter said: “We are very pleased to bring an executive of Yolanda’s calibre into MTN Group. Yolanda is a highly qualified and experienced executive, with a unique combination of operational telecommunications experience as well as finance, financial services and digital skills.
“I am confident that Yolanda’s leadership will place us in good stead as we intensify our efforts to build a digital ecosystem and scale our fintech offering across our markets.”
The telecoms company said under Yolanda’s leadership, it would continue to progressively grow the fintech and digital opportunities in Africa as it sees these areas as major drivers of its growth strategy.
It also said it would communicate Yolanda’s start date in due course.
