Oliver Fortuin
{{Short description|South African businessman and corporate executive}}
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| education = Open University
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| title = Group Chief Executive Officer at SEACOM
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Oliver Fortuin is a South African businessman and corporate executive who serves as the Group Chief Executive Officer of SEACOM, since January 2021. Before that, he was the group chief enterprise officer at MTN Group. In his new assignment, he is based at SEACOM's international headquarters in Johannesburg, Gauteng Province, South Africa.{{cite web|url=https://www.itweb.co.za/content/LPwQ5Ml6GVVvNgkj |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220314/https://www.itweb.co.za/content/LPwQ5Ml6GVVvNgkj |archive-date=14 March 2022 |url-status=live| title=MTN's Oliver Fortuin appointed Seacom group CEO |date=10 December 2020 |work=ITWeb South Africa |author=Sibahle Malinga | access-date=14 February 2022 |location=Johannesburg, South Africa}}{{cbignore}}{{cite web| url=https://africabusinesscommunities.com/tech/tech-news/seacom-appoints-oliver-fortuin-as-new-ceo/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220314/https://africabusinesscommunities.com/tech/tech-news/seacom-appoints-oliver-fortuin-as-new-ceo/ |archive-date=14 March 2022 |url-status=live|title=SEACOM appoints Oliver Fortuin as new CEO |work=Africa Business Communities |date=11 December 2020 |author=Pie Kamau |access-date=14 February 2022 | place=Nairobi, Kenya}}{{cbignore}}
Background and education
Fortuin is a South African national. He holds a Master of Business Administration, obtained from the Open University, in the United Kingdom.{{cite web| url=https://www.africaleadership.net/fellows/class-vi-tshelela/oliver-fortuin/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220314/https://www.africaleadership.net/fellows/class-vi-tshelela/oliver-fortuin/ |archive-date=14 March 2022 |url-status=live|title=Oliver Fortuin: General Manager, IBM Sub-saharan Africa, IBM |work=African Leadership Programme South Africa | date=2011 |author=African Leadership Programme | access-date=14 February 2022}}{{cbignore}}
Career
Fortuin has a business career going back over 20 years. He spent several years in various managerial and executive positions at International Business Machines (IBM), responsible for Sub-Saharan Africa in one position and for the entire African continent in another role.
He also spent three years at BT Global Services, managing their business in Sub-Saharan Africa. He joined MTN Group in 2007, serving there for nearly four years as the Group Chief Enterprise Officer.
At SEACOM, Oliver Fortuin replaced Byron Clatterbuck, who resigned for personal reasons. As Group CEO, Fortuin oversaw the acquisition of 100 percent of Hirani Telecom cable network in Nairobi, Kenya, where Hirani provides last mile connections for SEACOM customers.{{cite web| work=Subtelforum.com | url=https://subtelforum.com/seacom-completes-acquisition-of-hirani-telecom/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220314/https://subtelforum.com/seacom-completes-acquisition-of-hirani-telecom/ |archive-date=14 March 2022 |url-status=live|title=SEACOM Completes Acquisition of Hirani Telecom |date=29 October 2021 |author=Kenn Abuya |place=Sterling, Virginia, United States}}{{cbignore}} Also, under his watch, SEACOM acquired the office space and other selected assets in Uganda previously owned by the now defunct Africell Uganda.{{cite web|url=http://nilepost.co.ug/2022/02/11/seacom-acquires-africell-uganda-assets/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220314/http://nilepost.co.ug/2022/02/11/seacom-acquires-africell-uganda-assets/ |archive-date=14 March 2022 |url-status=live|title=SEACOM acquires Africell Uganda assets |work=Nile Post Uganda |date=11 February 2022 | author=Kenneth Kazibwe |access-date=14 February 2022 | location=Kampala, Uganda}}{{cbignore}}
Other considerations
Fortuin is a Fellow of the Africa Leadership Initiative–South Africa, being a member of the sixth class. He is also a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. In addition, he is a mentor for aspiring business executives in the community where he lives and works.
See also
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External links
- [https://www.linkedin.com/in/oliver-fortuin-44b7672/?originalSubdomain=za/ Personal Profile at LinkedIn.com]
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