Paul Doany, the CEO of Dubai-based Oger Telecom Limited, has stepped down after six years at the helm. He will be replaced on an interim basis by Oger chairman Mohammed Hariri.
In a statement issued by Oger, Doany thanked the company’s shareholders for…
Paul Doany, the CEO of Dubai-based Oger Telecom Limited, has stepped down after six years at the helm. He will be replaced on an interim basis by Oger chairman Mohammed Hariri.
In a statement issued by Oger, Doany thanked the company’s shareholders for their “full unwavering support” of the group’s initial “overly ambitious plans”, highlighting in particular Hariri and Saud Al Daweesh, the CEO of Saudi incumbent STC and vice-chairman of Oger since entering the shareholding in 2008.
His next step, he explained, was to “focus on diversified investments in internet and IT/software companies (including social networking, e-commerce and the financial sector). In addition, I will be expanding into renewable energy, focusing on geothermal power generation and also enhancements technologies”.
Hariri thanked Doany, who he said had “led our subsidiaries, from acquisition, operational build out, to successful transformation, as needed for the various stages of their development, handing over to other CEOs at the opportune time”.
Doany joined Saudi conglomerate Oger Group in 1998 and become general manager of Oger Telecom in 2002, before becoming CEO of Oger Telecom Limited in 2005. He was also CEO of subsidiary Turk Telekom from 2005 until 2010, when he was replaced by Hakam Kanafani. He was also on the board of all the company’s subsidiaries, which include South African cellco Cell C and ISp Cyberia.
