Telecommunications giant, Airtel is privileged to have a seasoned administrator such as Segun Ogunsanya at the helm of affairs. Segun Ogunsanya is currently the Managing Director and CEO of Airtel Nigeria. Before his current role, he worked with Nigeria Bottling Company, Limited.
Segun has over 24 years rich experience in the manufacturing industry, across multiple companies. It is on record that Airtel, under his supervision has the widest 3.75G coverage in Nigeria, and were the first to complete a 4G LTE trial in the country. Airtel also rolled out the high-definition voice service to deepen customer experiences on its network. The next main frontier in the Nigerian telecoms sector will be the data revolution, and Airtel is taking steady steps to ensure it leads the market when it happens. Segun Ogunsanya, a 1987 graduate of Electrical & Electronics Engineering from the University of Ife and Chartered Accountant, is the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Airtel Nigeria.
Segun Ogunsanya, is passionate about Corporate Social Responsibilities, a responsibility he never shies away from and executes with humility. He once called on business leaders, corporate bodies, entrepreneurs, policy makers, individuals and government to work together in order for Nigeria to initiate the key programmes aimed at achieving Sustainable Development Goals.
Ogunsanya and his team’s ambition is to reclaim market leadership in the highly competitive Nigerian telecoms market and, already, we are renowned for our revolutionary approachThrough his drive, Airtel Nigeria, a leading telecommunications services provider, fed over 5,000 Internally Displaced Persons across five camps in the country.In terms of its subscriber base, Airtel is the fourth largest telecoms company in the world and has a major presence in India.
In March 2014, Transparency International (TI) voted Airtel the fourth most transparent emerging market in the world. In Nigeria, Airtel is the second largest operator with over 26 million subscribers. Recall that in December 2010, Airtel Nigeria took the market by storm when it launched the innovative 2good value offering, a mobile proposition designed to empower customers toward realizing the full potential of its network. Ogunsanya and indeed Airtel’s focus during the time was to provide palliative packs to 5,000 persons across five Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps in the country.Through Ogunsanya, Airtel has not stopped its long standing tradition of celebrating and empowering the vulnerable and underprivileged during the festive season.
The Airtel Boss once said, “Airtel further committed various sums and support in kind covering donations to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), the Federal Ministry of Health and Port Health Authority, State Governments and the Federal Government.“Airtel also reached out to customers by offering free Short Message Service (SMS) worth over N1.2 billion,’’In October, 2020, Segun Ogunsanya was named the African Industry Personality of the Year by the Editorial Board of the African Leadership Magazine.Airtel, in a statement said that the Leadership Magazine were the organisers of the prestigious African Business Leadership Awards 2020. It said that Ogunsanya was presented with the award at a colourful virtual ceremony held on September 30.In 1999, he served as General Manager and Chief Executive of Coca-Cola, Ghana and later as the Chief Executive Officer of Coca-Cola Sabco, Kenya, in 2010. He was Managing Director and Head of Retail Banking Operations of Ecobank Transnational Inc. from 2008 to 2009. Ogunsanya was the Managing Director at Nigerian Bottling Company Plc from September 1, 2011, to December 2012. He was appointed CEO of the Nigerian operation of Bharti Airtel, on November 26, 2012.
