Speaker Bio
Nikos Angelopoulos is the Group Chief Information Officer of MTN Group, a multinational telecommunications service provider serving 300 million customers in 17 countries across Africa. As the Group CIO, Nikos is accountable for Information Technology across the Group.
Nikos has over 30 years of experience in management consulting and telecommunications service providers. He started his career with Accenture in the UK where he spent 15 years helping cable operators and telcos in Europe, Asia and the United States with digital transformation, digital television platforms and interactive services. After Accenture, Nikos joined Vodafone where he held various senior management positions including CIO for Greece, Regional CIO for Vodafone Italy and South Europe region and member of the Group IT Board. He joined MTN Group in 2018 from UAE’s Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company where he was the Executive Vice President for IT & Product Engineering.
Nikos holds a BSc in Physics from the University of Athens and an MSc in Digital Communications and Signal Processing from Imperial College, University of London. He also completed his Executive MBA (with Distinction, Dean's list) at London Business School and has recently participated in AI related executive education at Stanford University.