9mobile has a new CEO

Alan Sinfield, has been appointed the CEO of 9mobile by the Board of Directors of Emerging Markets Telecommunication Services Limited (EMTS), trading as 9mobile.

He will take over Stephane Beuvelet's position who served in an acting capacity when the new board took over the company’s management in November 2018.

Sinfield brings to the role a wealth of experience in wireless telecom, fintech and banking. He has overseen operations in the UK, Germany, Slovakia amongst others.

He was previously the Chief Executive Officer at Amara Communications Co, a 4G LTE mobile broadband operator in Myanmar, and before this, he was the Chief Executive Officer of Cadcomms in Cambodia. Other earlier roles include being CEO at Ooredoo (Starlink), a subsidiary of the listed Qatari Telecommunications Group, operating in Qatar and regionally, and also as Chief Information Officer and Chief Customer Services Officer at Orascom Telecom, a subsidiary of the listed Egyptian Telecommunications Group, operating the first mobile network in Baghdad and surrounding territories providing voice and nascent data and satellite services.

Sinfield began his career in the banking sector at Bank of America, where he was fast-tracked through a management trainee programme, later becoming a programmer and business analyst, where his desire to work overseas allowed him to close out the IT systems at Bank of America in Frankfurt, Germany. Afterwards, Sinfield joined Barclays Bank in South Africa and spent three years there as a Technical Manager.

He also worked for various other banks in Portugal, Slovakia, and Hong Kong before his first foray into the telecom industry in Korea with SK Telecom, which led to an M&A role with the merger of SK Telecom & Shinsaegi Telecom.