Leading Kenyan telecommunication service provider Safaricom is set to lose its chief technology officer (CTO), Thibaud Rerolle. 

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The successful CTO will take up a similar role at Vodafone Turkey at the end of July. Rerolle joined Safaricom seven and a half years ago from France's Telecom. He had worked in the Caribbean, South America, Europe and Africa.

While announcing the sad news via a memo to his staff, Safaricom chief executive officer Bob Collymore, lauded the great impact Rerolle has had at Safaricom. 

Some of his notable achievements include relocating M-Pesa servers from Germany to Kenya, rolling out Fuliza and deploying the 4G network.

“Among his biggest achievements include [sic] leading the cross-functional team responsible for the relocation of our servers from Germany, bringing M-Pesa home in April 2015,” Collymore said as quoted by Business Daily.

Collymore praised the outgoing chief technology officer for his great technological impact at the telco including a planned move from paper M-Pesa user registration to a digital registration system that will improve user security. 

He is also behind the Safaricom-Huawei end-to-end 400G backbone network planned project.

“Over the last four years Thibaud has sponsored and volunteered as the Technology Division’s 47-in-1 team captain, guiding a team of over 500 members of staff passionate about delivering education through technology in each of Kenya’s 47 counties,” the CEO said.