GSMA elects new board members, chair
The GSMA elected new members of the GSMA Board for the two-year period from January 2017 through December 2018. The GSMA board also elected Sunil Bharti Mittal, founder and chairman, Bharti Enterprises as chair, and re-elected Mari-Noelle Jego-Laveissiere, EVP, Innovation, Orange Group as deputy chair. As GSMA chair, Mittal will oversee the strategic direction of the organisation, which represents nearly 800 of the world's mobile operators, as well as more than 300 companies in the broader mobile ecosystem.