Airtel Uganda Managing Director VG Somasekhar has resigned on Tuesday, February 3, 2020, less than three years into his job.
The information was announced to staff members on Tuesday afternoon by Raghunath Venkateswarlu Mandava the Airtel Africa CEO,
V.G Somasekhar, is Airtel Uganda’s long serving Managing Director has today resigned his position in the top telecom company, this publication has learnt. In an email this afternoon, Raghunath Venkateswarlu Mandava the Airtel Africa CEO, broadcasted the message to staff that the MD will no longer be working with the company.
The letter titled: “Resignation Of V.G Somasekhar: Managing Director – Uganda“, the email written by Mr. Raghu said; “VG Somasekhar (Soma), Managing Director of Airtel Uganda Limited has expressed his desire to move to India and as such resigned from his current job, but will be associated with the Bharti, Airtel Group on his return to India.
The two-time Airtel Uganda MD came back to Airtel Africa in August 2017. He was first MD for Airtel Uganda between 2010 and 2014, and was reassigned to Bharti Airtel Group –later bouncing back in September 2017. Somasekhar has helped build Airtel Uganda Limited into a strong brand and into the company that it is today. He has been instrumental in rolling out the company’s 4G across the country and also recently launched Airtel TV app among other things.
Mandava is a staff mailing list wrote that Mr. Somasekhar will remain in office until 31st March 2020.
Mr. VG Somasekhar replaced Anwar Soussa who resigned from his job after just one year in office,
Somasekhar is especially remembered for leading Airtel Uganda from December 2010 to February 2014, during which period he oversaw the Airtel-Warid merger – the first telecom merger in Uganda and the most successful one across Africa.
Somasekhar began his career in Modi Xerox and he held various responsibilities across many geographies in India.
