Former MTN Group CEO, Rob Shutter, is stepping down from his role as CEO of UK-based BT Enterprise.
Shuter’s departure comes after BT Group today announced that it will be combining its Global and Enterprise units into a single B2B unit, BT Business.
In March 2020, MTN, Africa’s largest mobile operator, announced Shuter will leave the company at the end of his contract in March 2021.
In a statement, BT says BT Business will be led by Bas Burger, the current CEO of BT’s Global unit.
Burger joined BT Group in 2008 and prior to the Global role was responsible for BT Americas. Before joining BT Group, Burger was executive president and a member of the management committee of Getronics, where he ran global sales, channels and partnerships, developing the company’s international business.
He was also CEO and managing director of KPN Entercom Solutions.
The company believes that this will create a simpler BT Group with three customer facing units: Consumer supporting UK consumers; BT Business supporting business and public sector customers; and Openreach delivering UK nationwide fixed access infrastructure.
Shuter will support Burger with the integration over the next few months and will then be leaving BT to step down from executive life and spend more time with family and on his personal interests, says the firm.
“Throughout the past two very challenging years, Bas and Rob have provided outstanding leadership. COVID accelerated a shift in the market as people and businesses changed the way they worked, whilst macro-economic factors have disrupted supply chains and put pressure on businesses and the public sector globally,” says BT Group chief executive Philip Jansen.
“Despite this, we’ve made progress and our customer satisfaction scores have improved, in some cases to an all-time high. I am grateful to Bas and Rob for laying the foundations that enable us to take this next step in BT Group’s transformation.
“Bas and the Global and Enterprise teams will now work out the details of the integration over the next few months. I would like to reiterate my thanks to Rob for his contribution to BT over the last two years and wish him well for the future.”
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