Ole Bjorn Sjulstad appointed CEO of Telenor Bulgaria

Ole Bjorn Sjulstad has been appointed chief executive officer (CEO) of Telenor Bulgaria effective from 1 August, 2017.

He is to replace the chief marketing officer (CMO) Sasa Filipovic who currently serves as interim CEO. Mr. Filipovic succeeded Michael Foley on 20 May, when the latter took on the position as CEO of Grameenphone, Telenor Group’s unit in Bangladesh. Mr. Filipovic will now continue his role as Telenor Bulgaria CMO.

In his new position of Telenor Bulgaria CEO, Mr. Sjulstad will also become member of the Telenor Group CEE leadership team.

Ole Bjorn Sjulstad joined Telenor in 2000 as Vice President of the Asian regional office in Singapore and later as Managing Director (2002 – 2004). After that he was as Senior Vice President and Director of Corporate Development for emerging markets in Asia. In 2009 - 2015 he served as Head of Telenor's representative office in Moscow. Most recently and for the past two years, Mr. Sjulstad was the Chief Corporate Development Officer in Telenor Hungary.

He holds degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Business Administration from the Kongsberg Ingeniorhogskole and he completed the Program for Executive Development at IMD, Lausanne. Mr. Sjulstad is married and has three children.

"I'm very pleased that Ole Bjorn accepted the assignment to serve as CEO in the Bulgarian market. It was great working with him at Telenor Hungary where he proved his excellent leadership skills, dedication, openness and willingness to constantly learn. He is a great team-player and a role model when it comes to collaboration. I'm confident that he will do an excellent job in building Telenor Bulgaria's strategy further and collaborate on our cluster ambitions," EVP CEE Cluster & CEO of Telenor Hungary Alexandra Reich said.

"I'm really looking forward to join the strong and very successful Telenor Bulgaria team. I am eager to explore and understand the Bulgarian market place and help the company retain and expand on its market leadership in terms of mobile revenues and NPS”, commented Mr. Sjulstad.