Telenor Pakistan Names New CTO

Telenor Pakistan has appointed Khalid Shehzad as the firm's new Chief Technology Officer (CTO) with immediate effect. Formerly, Khalid was heading the IT division of the company as its Chief Information Officer (CIO). Atiq Ahmed, Director Operations & Maintenance, Technical Division, is taking up an expanded role as Deputy CTO.

The new positions were introduced in the wake of the recent merger of the Technical and IT divisions in the company.

Jon Eddy Abdullah, highly confident with the move, said: "The products we sell and the services we provide are based on a sound telecom network infrastructure and IT systems. Our core competency in Network and IT must always be the best in the industry. I am extremely confident that, with the new technical leadership, we can reaffirm our solid trust in the foundation of our business – Technology.''

Khalid Shehzad brings with him over 14 years experience in the field of IT and telecoms. He has been heading the Information Technology Division at Telenor Pakistan even before the company's launch in March 2005. He has previously also managed the Business Support Systems, IT Operations, and IT Security departments as VP IT and CIO. As CTO he will be heading the Technical and IT Divisions, working closely with Atiq Ahmed, the Deputy CTO.

Telenor is the second largest operator in the country, and numbers from The Mobile World notes that the operator ended last year with 19.4 million customers - representing a market share of 21.6%.

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Posted to the site on 4th May 2009