TeliaSonera appoints Johan Dennelind as CEO

TeliaSonera has appointed Johan Dennelind to the position of president and CEO. He has almost 20 years of experience of the telecommunications industry, most recently with Vodacom Group where he held the position as CEO Vodacom International based in South Africa.

He started his telecom career as a trainee with Telia AB. Between 1999 and 2010 he held various positions in Telenor, including two years as CEO of Digi Telecommunications. He holds a Master of Science in Business Administration from the University of Örebro, Sweden. Johan was born in 1969.

In February, Lars Nyberg, former TeliaSonera CEO resigned after an external review of the Nordic operator group’s investments in Uzbekistan criticised how it obtained a mobile licence in 2007.