Summit News

Khaled Khorshid has joined an already impressive list of C-level executives to attend the forthcoming NGT Africa Summit.
 
Starting December 2008, Khaled Khorshid has come to Zain Nigeria as Chief Operating Officer with experience that spans over 17 years in the IT and Telecom fields. He started his career in North America with leading consulting firms EDS and Accenture in systems integration and management consulting. For 10 years, he participated and managed large consulting projects for Fortune 100 companies including giant telecom operators like AT&T, Cable & Wireless, and SBC Communications.

Zain Nigeria
www.ng.zain.com

Formerly known as Celtel Nigeria, the company was established in 2000, by a group of institutional and private investors as well as three state governments.

It made history in August 2001 by becoming the first telecoms operator to launch commercial GSM services in Nigeria. In 2006, following Celtel International’s acquisition of majority stake in the company, it was re-branded Celtel and became an important part of Celtel’s pan-African operations spanning 14 countries.

In August 2008 Celtel Nigeria was rebranded Zain Nigeria following the global acquisition of Celtel International by MTC Group, which transformed to Zain Group, a leading emerging markets player in the field of telecommunications aiming to become one of the top ten mobile groups in the world by 2011.

Zain Nigeria, which currently covers over 1500 towns and 14000 communities across the six geopolitical zones of the country, scored a series of many other "firsts" in the highly competitive Nigerian telecommunications market including the first to introduce toll-free 24-hour customer care line-111; first to launch service in all the six geo-political zones in the country; first to introduce N500 recharge card; first to commence emergency service (Celtel 199); first to introduce monthly free SMS and first to introduce monthly airtime bonus.