Hani El-Kukhun has resigned as the COO of Ooredoo Kuwait citing personal reasons, the company announced in a local filing. Since October, the Qatari incumbent has seen a series of senior management changes at group and country level.
Hani El-Kukhun has resigned as the COO of Ooredoo Kuwait (KW:OOREDOO) citing personal reasons, the company announced in a local filing.
El-Kukhun had been at the company since July 2014, having joined from Zain Kuwait, where he had also been COO.
There have been a spate of management changes at the Qatari incumbent, at both group and country level.
In mid-October, long-serving Ooredoo (QA:ORDS) group strategy chief Jeremy Sell resigned, and was replaced on an interim basis by business development head Hans Kuropatwa. Also that month, internal appointee Bertrand Alexis became group chief corporate affairs officer and acting general counsel, replacing Michael Hancock.
In mid-November, Sheikh Saud bin Nasser Al Thani became group CEO, succeeding Nasser Mohammed Marafih, who joined the board of directors, replacing Omer Abdulaziz Al-Hamed Al-Marwani.
Waleed Mohamed Al-Sayed at the same time became group deputy CEO and CEO of Ooredoo Qatar, with Yousuf Abdulla Al Kubaisi named as COO of the domestic business, replacing Al-Sayed.
Two weeks later, Youssef El Masri became CEO of Ooredoo Tunisia, replacing Ken Campbell.
As of September 2015, Ooredoo had 114.9 million customers across Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, Algeria, Tunisia, Iraq, Palestine, the Maldives, Myanmar and Indonesia.
The company reported revenues of US$9.1bn in 2014.
