William Mzimba, CEO of Vodacom Business (a division of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange–listed Vodacom Group), informed his colleagues in a message that he would be departing the firm by the end of September 2023.
William Mzimba, who has led Vodacom’s business division for the past five years, is to retire at the end of September 2023.
Mzimba replaced Vuyani Jarana as Vodacom’s Business chief executive officer five years ago. No one at Vodacom believed in him internally. They said behind his back that this Accenture guy just couldn’t do what Jarana did for Vodacom.
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Vodacom, Mzimba, a mobile phone firm owned by Vodafone, has produced significant value over the previous five years. He kept Vodacom Business running well, and he took it to the next level as a business unit.
According to reliable sources, Mzimba will soon be joining either BSG (Business Systems Group) or MTN, where he will work with former Altron CEO Mteto Nyati. Nyati will take on the role of executive chairman at BSG, a business technology consulting firm, after purchasing a 40% stake in the company in November for an unknown sum.
Mzimba, as head of the business unit, oversaw the acquisition of IoT.net, one of South Africa’s cutting-edge IoT businesses with global expansion plans. Its Internet of Things (IoT) strategy and its dedicated IoT business unit will both benefit greatly from the acquisition.
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Vodacom Contract with Amazon Web Services
In addition, he helped Vodacom make a major investment in Cloud infrastructure by negotiating a contract with Amazon Web Services (AWS). Vodacom will join Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a customer and a reseller of AWS services in Africa. Since the cooperation expands Vodacom’s offerings beyond just connectivity, the term “game-changer” is appropriate.
The unique product-led move to a complete Cloud solution offering will be provided by Vodacom using AWS’ highly scalable and available cloud infrastructure. Vodacom, under Mzimba’s direction and insight, has a great chance of being the leading enabler and provider of IoT and cloud services in Africa.