Thibaud Weick

Created in 2007, NAOS Marketing has changed dramatically from a startup consultancy to be the Egyptian market leader in marketing and customer care with over 1,500 staff members. Turnover USD 5m. Merged with Mortimer Harvey Africa Middle East early 2019. Led the successful integration.

Fully integrated consulting, marketing, advertising and communications company based in South Africa and the Middle East, offering a full go-to-market service. Started the operation from scratch and created tremendous value to clients by assembling teams capable of delivering on the ground with immediate sales impact across the marketing delivery chain.

Smile Telecoms owns 4G LTE licenses in Tanzania, Uganda, Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Offers affordable, high quality superfast broadband data and voice services for all. Set up the company’s commercial structure, processes and teams from scratch at both global (Group) and local (operating companies) level, and delivered Smile's commercial launches in all its markets.

Orascom Telecom is a leading international telecommunications company operating GSM networks in high growth markets in the Middle East, Africa and Asia. Regional Commercial Director responsible for Orascom Telecom's operations across Southern Europe, the Middle East, North and Sub-Saharan Africa, representing ca. 48m customers and USD 11.6b in revenues.

Full P&L responsibility for Vodafone operations in Northern Cyprus (ca. USD 24m revenues, 140k mobile customers, 110 employees). On a special mission to bring the local operating company to global Vodafone standards and turn around business results whilst managing an extremely challenging political environment.

Responsibility to lead the turnaround and integration of Ghana Telecom into Vodafone for the Marketing & Sales functions with a core team of about 200 employees across the fixed, mobile and broadband business units. Delivered the launch of the Vodafone brand into the local market.

A turnaround role, responsible for market and customer insights, corporate strategy development and planning, new business development and project portfolio management. Managed 35 employees in 4 departments. Budget responsibility: ca. EUR 19m OPEX and ca. EUR 112m CAPEX.

Responsible for the integration of two new Vodafone subsidiaries in Czech Republic (Oskar) and Romania (Connex). Project scope included finance, products, brand, network/ IT and people, delivered by a team of ca. 150 people spread across Vodafone Group functions, Oskar and Connex.

Tasked to build up Channel Marketing function from scratch (actual headcount June 2005: 15 FTEs).

Customer Operations. Full line management responsibility for about 100 employees in 4 departments.

Corporate strategy and business development.

Vodafone Global Business Services. Product development and marketing.

Corporate strategy and business development.

Management consulting with focus telecommunications (fixed, xDSL, mobile, cable) and media.