Tony Christodoulou
Lecturer
GIBS Business School
University of Pretoria
South Africa
Biography
Tony is the CIO of Africa for American Tower Corporation. He is an IT executive and execution enablement specialist with broad experience, largely in the financial and telecommunications sector. Tony has managed many complex cross-border programmes and projects in all aspects from operations, compliance, and strategy to various aspects of IT, process efficiencies and integration within retail/corporate banking and telco infrastructure and operations. He managed work-streams within the Barclays-Absa merger and acquisition, and drove strategic alignment (from standardisation to decentralisation initiatives). He has worked and executed across 22 countries in Africa and the Middle East for American Towers, Barclays Bank, Absa Bank and Standard Bank which has provided him with the opportunity to effectively manage IT projects/programmes, infrastructure and business transitions that are strategic in nature from a group perspective.
Research Interest
Project management; Execution; Information systems & technology; Innovation; Social media & networking and Information & knowledge management
