Times Of Swaziland: JEFF PENBERTON IS SWAZI MOBILE CEO

JEFF PENBERTON IS SWAZI MOBILE CEO
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BY NTOMBI MHLONGO on 01/02/2018 01:04:00


MBABANE – A company that aspires to achieve results has to introduce changes
and Swazi Mobile has done just that.
This is because the company has, for the first time since it began its
operations, appointed someone into the position of Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
on a permanent basis.
The news comes after almost three weeks since the company lost its chairman,
Victor Gamedze, who died after he was shot in cold blood at the Ezulwini Galp
Filling Station.
The man who has taken the hot seat of being a substantive CEO for Swazi Mobile
is none other than experienced telecoms mastermind Jeff Penberton.
Penberton is not new to the company as he was there when it officially went live
on the last week of July last year and was announced to the same position albeit
on an acting basis.
After his contract expired, he left the company and the acting position was
taken over by experienced technical master Wandile Mntshali.
Having lost its executive chairman, most members of the public have been asking
themselves if the company would be able to cope and grow but it looks like its
management has everything under control.
The announcement of Penberton is said to have been communicated to most of the
employees yesterday.
However, the contractual terms of the appointment could not be ascertained.
When this newspaper visited the company’s main offices situated at the Glass
House Building, Penberton was found in a meeting but eventually attended to this
reporter.
Being a man who does not usually say much, he decried that it was still early to
talk about his new position but admitted the need to grow the company by
continuing from where Gamedze left off.