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The GSMA has elected Franco Bernabè, Chief Executive Officer of Telecom Italia, as its new Chairman for a two-year term from January 2011. He’ll take over from Alexander Izosimov, the CEO of VimpelCom Group. Jon Fredrik Baksaas, President and CEO of Telenor Group, was elected as Deputy Chairman.

The other GSMA board members – in addition to GSMA CEO Rob Conway – are:

Alejandro Magaña Pérez, Vice President, International Relations, América Móvil

William Hague, Executive Vice President - International, AT&T Mobility

Jamaludin Ibrahim, Managing Director, President and Group CEO, Axiata Group Berhad

Sanjay Kapoor, CEO, Bharti Airtel Ltd (India and South Asia)

Sha Yuejia, Executive Director and Vice President, China Mobile

Lu Yimin, President, China Unicom

Olivier Baujard, Chief Technology Officer, Deutsche Telekom

Christian Salbaing, Deputy Chairman, Hutchison Whampoa Europe

Hyun-Myung Pyo, President, Mobile Business Group and Member of Board of Directors, KT Corporation

Alexander Popovskiy, CEO, MTS Russia Business Unit, OJSC Mobile TeleSystems

Hannes Ametsreiter, CEO, Telekom Austria Group and A1 Telekom Austria

Dr Kiyoyuki Tsujimura, Senior Executive Vice President and Member of Board of Directors, NTT DOCOMO

Anne Bouverot, Executive Vice President, Personal LoB and Group Devices, France Telecom-Orange

Khaled Bichara, Group CEO, Orascom Telecom

Dr Nasser Marafih, Group CEO, Qtel

Sung Min Ha, President, Mobile Network Operation Business Unit, SK Telecom

Napoleon Nazareno, President and CEO, Smart Communications

Tetsuzo Matsumoto, Senior Executive Vice President, SoftBank Mobile

Anil Kumar Sardana, Managing Director, Tata Teleservices Limited

Vivek Dev, Group Director of Global New Services, Telefónica

Alexander Izosimov, President and CEO, VimpelCom Ltd

Richard J Lynch, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Verizon

Steve Pusey, Chief Technology Officer, Vodafone

The GSMA is a trade organisation that represents the interests of the worldwide mobile communications industry.

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