DUBAI: Bahrain’s Batelco has appointed Alan Whelan as group chief executive, the state-run telecommunications operator said yesterday, nearly 11 months after its former CEO quit.
Whelan is an industry veteran whose former employers include BT, AT&T and telecom companies in India and Macao.
Whelan joins a company that has reported declining profits in 16 of the past 18 quarters and has suffered an exodus of senior management in the last 12 months.
He replaces Sheikh Mohamed bin Isa Al Khalifa, who quit last May. Also departing last summer were long-serving Peter Kaliaropoulos, himself a former Batelco CEO, and ex-finance chief Marco Regnier.
Prior to Whelan’s appointment, a three-person committee of board members were in charge of Batelco.
Reuters
