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Claude Bassil - General Manager
Claude Bassil has over 18 years of progressive experience in the telecom and high tech sector including IT and telecom management. As of January 2008, he was assigned as the General Manager of mtc touch Lebanon where he first worked as a Chief Information Officer (CIO) then as Chief Commercial Officer (CCO). In 1994, Bassil occupied the position of Assistant Marketing Director, Head of Products & Services at FTML (Cellis), France Telecom – Lebanon. In 1997 he joined Vodafone Group Worldwide where he worked for more than four years in various mobile operations affiliated to the Group across the globe. His first experience with Vodafone was at Eircell, currently Vodafone Ireland, where he was appointed as the Marketing Project Manager. Later on, he was assigned in Romania to work in the Mobifon SA startup, a Vodafone/TIW consortium, as the IT and Marketing Project Director. His next stop was in Egypt where he served as the Principle Consultant and Project Manager in Systems Integration for another Vodafone startup operation before heading to Hungary to handle his new position as Principle Consultant and Solution Architect. He closed the first chapter of his professional life with Vodafone Group after he was assigned in Kenya as the Billing Manager and Principle Consultant where he assisted the CEO in the startup operation of Safaricom Ltd-Kenya. In 2001, he joined Orascom Telecom in Cairo as Group IT Director. His valuable experience and diversified knowledge in the field allowed him to play a key-role in the establishment of two of Orascom’s GSM operations, Sabafone in Yemen and OT-Tunisia. |
