Jens Schulte-Bockum

Jens Schulte-Bockum has been Chief Operating Officer at the MTN Group, in Johannesburg, from 2017 to April 2024. His role included managing the Group’s functional teams in the commercial, technology, enterprise and digital areas, as well as overseeing the operations of MTN’s 22 operating companies in Africa and the Middle East.

Prior to joining MTN Group, he spent 24 years in the consulting and telecommunications industry. Jens has extensive operational experience in the mobile telecommunications sector, most recently as CEO of Vodafone Germany between 2012 and 2015. Jens has extensive experience in the consumer business as well as in the area of large-scale transformation into a converged operation

He was CEO of Vodafone’s largest operating company in Germany, where he was a member of Kabel Deutschland Holding AG and was chairman of this listed subsidiary from 2013 to 2015.