SEACOM has appointed Steven van der Linde (above) as Chief Sales Officer. He will be responsible for growing group revenues as well as leading customer engagement and strategic channel development at SEACOM.
He has more than 20 years of sales leadership experience in the African telecoms market. Steven joins SEACOM from Tata Communications, where he was Regional Sales Director for Africa. Previously, he held the same position with Teleglobe, which was acquired by VSNL and ultimately by Tata Communications.
Steven started his career in telecoms as an engineer with Telkom South Africa, where he was later promoted to Head of New Technologies, responsible for the introduction of new data services. He later moved into marketing to promote the use of these newly deployed services and handled Product Management of the whole Data Services Portfolio. He left the carrier to help establish M-Web, a South African Internet service provider.
“We are revolutionising the way people do business in Africa, and it is great to be part of this exciting journey.
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