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