Last month Airtel had promoted Raghunath Mandava, Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Airtel’s Africa operations as the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Airtel Africa. Mandava currently heads Airtel’s operation in the African continent and is also a permanent member of the Board of Directors. In the same month Airtel had additionally appointed Christian Defaria who was the executive chairman for Airtel Africa as Chairman for Airtel International (Netherlands).