Pan African Towers Limited has appointed Jyoti Desai and Vivek Gupta as non-executive directors. It said in a statement that Desai and Gupta joined Adefolarin Ogunsanya, Daniel Adeoye, Marc Stoneham and Azeez Amida on the board of the company.

Desai, a former g r o u p chief operating officer of MTN, is a banking and telecoms professional with more than 35 years in the industry. At Standard Bank and beyond, she has led major transformations in banking to cut costs and enhance customer focus.

With over 15 years in financial services and telecoms across Africa and the Middle East, she had a proven track record.

Also, Gupta, a first-generation entrepreneur, investor and telecoms veteran, is the founder and director of iSON Group.

He was said to have built a dynamic ecosystem of businesses in IT & ITeS, BPO and telecom infrastructure and services, employing 20,000+ resources, spanning 40 countries across Africa, Asia and the Middle East.

He became an entrepreneur in 2008 as chief executive officer of Zamil Infra, iSON’s first joint venture which specialises in building and managing services for telecoms passive infrastructure.

Under Gupta’s leadership, iSON Group expanded into renewable energy, digital infrastructure, digital healthcare, and health insurance.

With 20 years in telecoms, including roles at Ericsson and IBM, he was named “IBM’s All-Star Salesman” in 2008 for securing over $5 billion in business and executing groundbreaking deals with Bharti Airtel, Idea, and.