Johannesburg - Network service and undersea broadband cable company Seacom has a new chief executive officer.
The company announced on Monday that it has appointed Byron Clatterbuck as its new CEO.
The move comes after Seacom announced in February last year that its previous chief executive officer, Mark Simpson, had resigned.
Before Clatterbuck’s appointment as CEO, Seacom founder and original CEO Brian Herlihy took over the CEO role at the company.
Seacom operates a 17,000km sub-sea broadband cable that connects Africa’s eastern coastline to Europe and Southern Asia. The cable was the first sub-sea fibre broadband cable to land along Africa’s eastern coastline in 2009.
Meanwhile, the company also has a cloud computing component that builds out the likes of data centres on the continent.
“Seacom has changed the African ICT landscape and it is now time for us to continue this transformation by driving new services and capabilities into Africa’s marketplace,” said Brian Herlihy, who is also an executive director at Seacom.
“Clatterbuck will lead Seacom into a new era of growth and leverage his operational and business development know-how to unleash the power and speed of Seacom’s global network,” he said.
Clatterbuck was previously Seacom’s Chief Commercial Officer. Prior to starting at Seacom in 2012, Clatterbuck was the President of Tata Communications’ global service provider segment while he has also held senior executive positions at BT, Level 3, and REACH.