Airtel Kenya Appoints New Executives

Airtel has announced the appointment of Topyster Muga and Venkateshwaran (Venkat) Ramakrishnan as the new head of Airtel Money and finance director respectively for its operation in Kenya. The duo bring along their experience in a bid to continue the company’s commitment to delivering exceptional quality brand engagement and service provision to its customers across the country.

In her pervious role, Topyster was a principal product development Manager – M-Pesa at Vodafone Group Services, UK and has worked extensively in other telecom companies. She was awarded the ‘Institute European De Administrations DeAffaires’ (INSEAD) Nelson Mandela scholarship at the INSEAD business school in France. Venkat joined Airtel in India in 2006 as a Financial Reporting Manager, Prior to joining Airtel, Venkat worked for Vodaphone in Banglore where he was the head of consolidation for the Vodaphone Group in India.

Speaking on the appointments, Airtel Kenya CEO Adil El Youssefi said, “I am delighted to have Topyster and Venkat join our leadership team in Kenya. They both bring along unique individual qualities, diverse cross cultural and international experience that will add to the quality of our leadership team’s capability to better serve our customers. I wish them the best of every success and a prosperous careers in their assignments with us.”