Shivan Bhargava is no longer Airtel Kenya MD and his place has been taken over by Tigo Ghana’s Adil El Yousseffi in a second executive shuffle at the firm after Manoj Kohli, Bharti Airtel the former co-CEO and MD of the International business.
TechMoran has not established the fate of Shivan, but CIO East Africa is reporting that Shivan will be staying with his family in India meaning he has not taken any new job at the expansive Bharti Empire.
Bhargava was the Managing Director at Airtel Kenya Limited and had served as the Chief Operating Officer of Airtel Kenya Ltd. since September 2011. Earlier he was Senior Vice President of Bharti Airtel Ltd and also served as Regional Logistics & Planning Manager at Coca – Cola India.
With an MBA from INSEAD, in France and Singapore and an M. Sc. in Engineering from ENSEIRB in Bordeaux, France Adil El Youssefi joined the Millicom Group in 2008 as Senior Advisor to the Chief Officer Asia in Sri Lanka. In 2009, he was appointed as Tigo Chad’s Deputy General Manager and a year later was appointed as a General Manager Tigo Ghana and in June 2012 became the GM Millicom Ghana. Mr. Youssefi worked for British Telecommunications and Philips Consumer Electronics prior to joining the Millicon Group.