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Deputy Chief Executive Officer at Tunisie Télécom

Tunisie Télécom

Deputy Chief Executive Officer

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Dubai Holding (Tunisie Telecom)

Chief Commercial Officer

YPO Dubai Chapter

Chairman of the Board 2016-17

LEGEinvestments is a private leading family office investment company focusing on creating sustainable investment portfolios in target markets.

LeGe Investments

Managing Partner

Non-executive director of leading Malta based datacenter with global clients, including its subsidiaries Bellnet Limited and BM Support Services Limited

BMIT

Member of the Board - Non-executive Director

Driving shareholder value creation at Axiom Telecom, our Dubai based portfolio company & largest handsets/accessories/telecom retailer in the Middle East. Successful partial exit in 2011.

Axiom Telecom

Member of the Strategy Committee

Member of the Board - non-executive director at GO plc, publicly listed largest 4P telecom operator in Malta. Managed value creation and successful exit.

GO plc, Malta

Being with EIT since August 2006 in different roles and countries this appointment came in 2010 and brought the responsibility to create and manage Portfolio Group located at the company HQ in Dubai, UAE.

EIT is an investment company focusing on communications and media sector across EMEA, managing Dubai Holding's multibillion telecoms portfolio. Investments include Tunisie Telecom (Tunisia), GO (Malta - exited in August 2016), Forthnet (Greece), Interoute (UK - exited in 2015), Du (UAE), Axiom Telecom (UAE - partial exit in 2011).

As Head of Portfolio Group responsible for portfolio management and value creation for EIT portfolio towards exits. Driving value at portfolio companies via governance, planning & monitoring and active management. Working closely with portfolio companies boards, committees, CEOs and C-level executives. Closely involved in government and regulatory as well as shareholder to shareholder relations.

Member of Portfolio Review Committee at EIT.

Member of the Board/Strategy Committee and HR/Integration Committee at Tunisie Telecom.

Member of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee at Go plc, Malta.

Member of the Strategy Committee at Axiom Telecom, Dubai, UAE.

Member of the Board of Directors at BMIT Limited Malta and its subsidiaries

Emirates International Telecommunications LLC; Dubai

Head of Portfolio Group

Overseeing commercial operations at Malta's leading 4P telecommunications company, serving residential, business and wholesale markets. Responsible for setting-up the organization and developing it with high potential leaders to take on the market challenges in the areas of strategic marketing, residential and business segment management and sales, wholesale, international and new biz models, communications and customer experience.

Driving company revenues and gross margins with 4P bundling via introducing 4P "Homepack" proposition and significant improvements in branding/distribution/customer care. GO has enjoyed number 1 positions in all three within Maltese telecoms sector.

Revenues of 130M EUR, EBITDA 45M EUR, directly managing 350 employees organization.

Part of the international telecom investment portfolio of EIT Dubai.

GO plc., Malta

Chief Operations Officer

Member of the Board/Committees at Tunisie Telecom, largest telecom operator in Tunisia.

Member of the Board/Committees

Member of Young Presidents Organization (YPO-WPO) since 2008.
Elected member of the YPO-WPO International Networks Committee/ Global Governance
Member of YPO Dubai & Slovakia chapters.
Member of YPO MENA Regional Board
Past global Network Chair for the YPO-WPO Musicians Network.
Member of Global Executive Committee and Regional Chair MENA of the YPO-WPO Internet & Technology Network and Financial Services Network.

Winner of the Best Worldwide Chapter Retreat YPO Dubai in Slovakia (2015)
Winner of the Best Worldwide YPO Personal Network for the Musicians Network (2015)
Winner of the Best Worldwide YPO Personal Network Event for the "Fender Factory Tour" (2014)

Member of the YPO International Network Committee & YPO MENA Board

Responsible for managing full Go Mobile's P&L, operations and budget in Maltese market and developing synergies within GO Group (GO plc., Malta). Responsible for all company functions - commercial, finance, engineering, IT, HR, legal/regulatory.

Revenues of 55M EUR, 260 employees.

Instrumental in merging mobile and fixed operations, launching 4P propositions resulting in the head of mobile role expanded into COO Group across all lines of business.

Part of the international telecom investment portfolio of EIT Dubai.

GO Mobile, Malta

Chief Mobile Operations Officer - Equivalent to CEO

Overseeing commercial strategy and operations for the telcos being part of Dubai Holding international portfolio - Tunisie Telecom (Tunisia), GO plc. (Malta), Forthnet/Nova (Greece).

Interim management of commercial mobile P&L and organization in Tunisie Telecom between Oct 2006 and Aug 2007, revenues of 500M USD and 4 million customers.

Responsible for portfolio commercial active management, value creation planning and strategy re-formulation, commercial organization design, planning, target setting, monitoring, execution support as well as performance management and synergies.

Director of Marketing

Managing consultant

Sep 2005 - April 2006

Project manager for the product lifecycle management process design project for the fixed line/data/broadband incumbent in Greece.

Responsible for the project management and delivery of the outputs.

Analysis of the current status, design of the new product lifecycle management process.

Implementation of the process in the customized way within the client's environment.

Oct 2004 - June 2005

Stream leader for the 2nd wireless operator start-up in Saudi Arabia (Etihad Etisalat).

Responsible for the stream of products, services and pricing.

Deliverables include pre-launch market analysis, research & benchmarking, market segmentation, products & services roadmap development & implementation supervision, launch tariffs and pricing development, marketing organization & staffing support.

Detecon International, Member of T-Systems

Managing Consultant

Responsible for sales & marketing and project management consultancy for major clients in Slovakia and abroad including wireless operators, leading banks and other financial enterprises.

Strategic consulting, including business plan & marketing and sales strategy development.

Advising new businesses on formation of corporations and business structures, drafting corporate policies and processes, proposing and implementing performance managmenent tools.

Hofmann International Consulting

Consulting Partner

Responsible for marketing management within launch phase in start-up mobile operator with renowned shareholders to provide the first wireless services at post-war central Iraq market.

Responsible for recruitment and setting-up of initial marketing team of 16 including 3 other expat department managers.

Areas of responsibility covered planning & strategy implementation, segment management, geo-marketing, research and intelligence, market development, ATL/BTL advertising, VAS development, SIM & scratch cards, interconnection, pricing & promotions.

Orascom Telecom Iraq

Launch Marketing Director

Responsible for marketing operations in start-up mobile operator with renowned shareholders providing services at post-war Afghan market.

Company has gained 30 % market share in 4 weeks of operations.

Areas of responsibility covered planning & strategy development and execution, segmentation, pricing & promotions, handsets, SIM cards and prepaid scratch cards management, VAS management, roaming set-up and management, national and international interconnection.

Setting-up marketing operations team with focus on couching and training of local employees.

Telecom Development Company Afghanistan

Launch Director, Marketing Operations

Implemented new product management process according to Project Management principles, which helped to introduce time to market services & changed company_____ILLEGAL_CHAR_SSSTART146ILLEGAL_CHAR_EEEND_____s position from 2nd into innovator.

Responsible for new products & services planning including both VAS and wireless terminals _____ILLEGAL_CHAR_SSSTART150ILLEGAL_CHAR_EEEND_____ definition of product roadmap, feasibility studies, and business modelling.

Managing product approval process, commercial implementation & project management, evaluation and lifecycle management.

Actively participating on the definition of the product communication strategy and execution.

Built the team of Product Managers, responsible for their recruitment, training & development _____ILLEGAL_CHAR_SSSTART150ILLEGAL_CHAR_EEEND_____ managing 16 product managers including 4 first line supervisors.

Actively participating at top executive level T-Mobile International pan-European Marketing Board focused on Group marketing strategy (CMOs level).

T-Mobile Slovakia/EuroTel Bratislava

Deputy Marketing Director & Head of Product Management & Roaming

Responsible for establishing/setting-up and managing corporate Program Management Office (PMO). Responsible for corporate projects set-up, control, and milestones/critical issues reporting to the Executive Committee.

Implemented project management methodology and training programs in EuroTel through the concept of _____ILLEGAL_CHAR_SSSTART147ILLEGAL_CHAR_EEEND_____Stage Gate_____ILLEGAL_CHAR_SSSTART148ILLEGAL_CHAR_EEEND_____.

Introduced the set of tools for project management support such as directives on the process description, document templates, corporate project electronic library, best practices shared database and other.

Managing and facilitating KOMPAS _____ILLEGAL_CHAR_SSSTART150ILLEGAL_CHAR_EEEND_____ senior management cross-functional team acting as the advisory board for the company_____ILLEGAL_CHAR_SSSTART146ILLEGAL_CHAR_EEEND_____s Executive Management and provide them with the proposals & stage gate management of the business development.

Driving proposals according to the business plan _____ILLEGAL_CHAR_SSSTART150ILLEGAL_CHAR_EEEND_____ revenues/margins increase and costs optimisation, focusing on new products and services and internal cross-functional systems development. Reported to CEO.

Head of Corporate Project Management Office

Managing PR activities of the company. Product launches, press events, crisis communications, customer magazine.

Norbert Prihoda