Jens Schulte-Bockum

Jens Schulte-Bockum

Former Chief Operating Officer at MTN Group

Mr. Schulte-Bockum  has been working at MTN Group, Johannesburg, from 2017 to April 2024 as Chief Operating Officer. His role included managing the Group functional teams across Commercial, Technology, Enterprise and Digital as well as overseeing operations of MTN’s 22 operating companies in Africa and the Middle East.

Before joining MTN Group, he spent 24 years in consulting and telecommunications. Jens has extensive operational experience in the mobile telecoms sector, with his last senior role being as CEO of Vodafone Germany between 2012 and 2015. Jens has extensive experience in the consumer business, as well as the area of large scale transformation in a convergent operation.

He was Chief Executive Officer of Vodafone’s largest operating company in Germany where he integrated Kabel Deutschland Holding AG and served as chairman of this listed subsidiary from 2013 to 2015.

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