Tampnet has announced the appointment of Elie Hanna as its chief executive officer (CEO) from 01 September. Hanna joins Tampnet Group from Ericsson and replaces Per Helge Svensson. The Canadian citizen will be based in Tampnet’s Houston office.
For the past six and a half years, Hanna has held the position of president of the global customer unit America Movil and customer unit for Latin America North and Caribbean at Ericsson.
Hanna holds a BEng in Telecommunications and an EMBA. Most recently, he completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School. He expressed excitement at joining Tampnet and said the company is well positioned to support customer digitisation in order to improve efficiency and identify new revenue streams.
Tampnet thanked Svensson for contributing to its development as an offshore communications provider and wished him luck in his new endeavours.
