Zain appoints Wassim Mansour GM of Touch Lebanon

Wassim Mansour has been appointed general manager of Touch in Lebanon, the mobile operation Zain manages on behalf of the Lebanese government. Mansour succeeds Claude Bassil, who will be moving to a senior management role within Zain Group.

Prior to this appointment as GM Mansour held the position of chief advisor to the Zain Group CEO for the past 18 months, during which time he temporarily served as CEO of Zain South Sudan.

Mansour’s appointment becomes effective immediately.

Zain has been managing Touch since June 2004, and the operation has a leading 53 per cent customer market share serving over two million customers.