The CEO of a United Arab Emirates government-owned telecoms business is to join the board of Vodafone, the company said today, as it announced a deal to deepen the two firms’ ties.
Hatem Dowidar, boss of e&, which is majority-owned by the UAE sovereign wealth fund, will become a non-executive director at Vodafone in a bid to explore working together on procurement, technology development and jointly offering telecoms services.
