{"id":36988,"date":"2018-02-20T15:51:47","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T15:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/former-tigo-boss-amoateng-appointed-new-airtel\/"},"modified":"2018-02-20T15:51:31","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T15:51:31","slug":"former-tigo-boss-amoateng-appointed-new-airtel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/former-tigo-boss-amoateng-appointed-new-airtel\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Tigo boss Amoateng appointed new Airtel Managing Director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Amoateng is a member of the Association of Chartered Accountants and a graduate of the University of Leicester with an MBA. He has held various operational, financial and strategy positions whilst he worked at Millicom for more than 16 years.<\/p>\n<p> In 2016, he was appointed CEO Tigo Rwanda, a position he held until the organization was acquired by Airtel.  <\/p>\n<p>According to Airtel, the move to combine the two entities will see improvements in coverage and a wider network of customer touch points. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-24059 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/phillip_amoateng-f26f3.jpg\" alt=\"Philip Amoateng \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following Rwanda Utilities Regulatory Authority (RURA) approval of the acquisition of Tigo Rwanda by Airtel Rwanda last month, the combined entity has appointed former Tigo Chief Executive Officer, Philip Amoateng as the Managing Director.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-36988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36988"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=36988"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=36988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}