Vodafone Qatar Ceo Named Telecom Leader In GCC
Kyle Whitehill, Chief Executive Officer of Vodafone Qatar, has recently been named in the TOP CEO Awards and the leading CEO of the Telecom industry across the region.
Organised by business publication TRENDS magazine in conjunction with INSEAD business school, the TOP CEO Awards 2015 ceremony paid tribute to business leaders whose success for their organisations is an instrumental factor in the continued growth of the region.
The fifth instalment of the annual programme, TOP CEO 2015 honoured business heads judged to have excelled in the field of leadership.
Mediaquest, the media company behind the initiative, says that the scheme is the most credible of its kind in the region, as only leaders of the firms listed on the stock exchanges of Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait and Oman are eligible for ranking.
Kyle Whitehill, Chief Executive Officer of Vodafone Qatar, said: “To me, the fundamental job of a CEO is not just to help your team create a vision, strategy and a plan - it is to engage, inspire, and motivate people across the organization.
"There can be no TOP CEO without a TOP team backing him or her each day. I therefore accept the honour of being in the TOP CEO Awards on behalf of Vodafone Qatar’s talented and tireless team, without whom we would have never reached this stage.
"From telecommunications to banking and air travel, I am additionally proud to stand among a group of such distinguished global business leaders who are indeed shaking up their industries and shifting the centre of gravity toward this region as partners - not passengers - on its remarkable economic journey."
Vodafone Qatar switched on its mobile network on 1 March 2009 and shortly after started delivering great value to its customers with a range of exciting products and services.
Its cutting-edge networks infrastructure is the first green field networks project in Vodafone Group in the past 15 years. This places the company in a great position to develop, in the future, one of the world’s only converged networks.
Vodafone launched its fibre-based consumer and enterprise fixed-line services commercially in October 2012.
Whitehill concluded: “We are strongly committed to providing world class telecommunications infrastructure to support the Qatar National Vision 2030 and live up to the promise we made to The State of Qatar, its people and all of our stakeholders.”
Before joining Vodafone Qatar, Kyle Whitehill was the Chief Executive Officer for Vodafone Ghana from June 2010 to June 2013.
Under his leadership, Vodafone Ghana became the second largest telecom operator in Ghana and grew the subscriber base from 2 million to over 5 million.
Prior to that, Kyle joined Vodafone UK in 2001 as head of the Enterprise business. In February 2008 he moved to Vodafone India as Chief Operating Officer.
During his tenure as Chief Operating Officer, the subscriber base of Vodafone India’s business grew from 47 million to over 100 million.
His early career was spent in fast moving consumer goods with L’Oreal and Jeyes before he entered general management with the Soft Drinks division of PepsiCo.
Kyle was educated in Scotland and has a degree in marketing and economics. Kyle is a keen golfer and supporter of Glasgow Rangers football club and is married with 3 teenage sons.
@JokerQL again, the same thing. you are trying to justify them for the poor service they provide. I am not talking about qtels call rates to india before vf entered the market ( BTW it was 3.50 qar/ min in 2008 for your info), what I am talking is the present situation. VF network is a disaster compared to qtel. I don't care how VF wud perform after 5 years from now, I don't care it was their first start up in last 15 years, I don't care their n/w is handles by alcatel lucent and Huawei. AS A CUSTOMER, what I care is service for my money.
Cannot deny the fact that Vodafone's network quality is pathetic. A good number of enterprise customers are moving away from them, back to ooredoo.
A Rangers supporter . Says it all
lol. I don't work for Vodafone (though I wish I am). for me ooredoo simply doing nothing, try calling their customer service and try to talk (in case if you get anyone online ) and see what they say . and just do a search in QL also and see customers feedback.
ooredoo is in this market for last 20 years plus and Vodafone probably 5 years so there is noway you can compare them. Its Vodafone who brought the price down in Qatar (I hope you remember Qtel international and local charges, for example, calling to India was 1.50QR or more before Vodafone comes in to picture) . so looking in to all these, without doubt Vodafone is doing better job than ooredoo. Vodafone infrastructure work is still going on, I am sure they will do better once its done.
any telecommunication company would face these kind of issues when they are new in the market.
you cannot say ooredoo is doing nothing. that's quite a blank statement.
ooredoo is way far better than Vodafone. I have faced very few drop calls with ooredoo. their coverage is much superior than Vodafone. Vodafone's both coverage and capacity are poor. i had vf and qtel, and now ditched my Vodafone and uses two ooredoo. i assume you work for Vodafone that's why you support them blindly.
Since the article was posted on April 1, 2015 it MUST be a joke.
Ooredoo is not good either, end of the day both are same. so I feel Vodafone is better as ooredoo is in business for long time and doing nothing.
as a customer what I care is for the service I get for my hard earned money, I don't or need not care about what shape the company is in or what milestones they achieved. and in this context, VFQ is a disaster. Very Simple.
in my point of view Vodafone Qatar is doing fantastic job in Qatar. if you really know the real situation they are in, you will really appreciate them for the milestones they have completed
"Qatar’s talented and tireless team, without whom we would have never reached this stage."....LOLLLL....all cheaters...liers
Disaster in the full company. They only cheat customers and no one top to bottom is actually concerned of any difficulties the customers face. arrogant and lazy staff all over. Any CEO is equally responsible if he fails to instill a professional and hospitable work attitude especially when they know that majority of their cleint segment is Labor work force.