Board of Directors

Appointed to the Board
12 September 2019

Committees
Nomination Committee (Chair)
Remuneration Committee

Skills and experience
Sir Samuel Jonah KBE, OSG has extensive listed company experience, having served on the boards of various public and private companies including Vodafone Group plc, Lonrho plc, the Global Advisory Council of the Bank of America corporation and Standard Bank Group. He has been Chair of Roscan Gold Corporation Inc. since January 2020. He previously worked for Ashanti Goldfields and later became Executive President of AngloGold Ashanti Limited.

He was born and educated in Ghana, and obtained a Master’s degree in Management from Imperial College London, and is a member of the American Academy of Engineering.

Other current appointments
Roscan Gold Corporation Inc. listed in Canada on the TSX Venture Exchange

Appointed to the Board
12 September 2019

Committees
Sustainability Committee
Technology Committee

Skills and experience
Tom Greenwood joined Helios Towers in 2010, during the Company’s formation, and was appointed CEO in April 2022. He has held numerous positions since joining, including two prior executive positions (Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer).

Tom has overseen many of the Company’s key milestones, including all 15 major M&A transactions, the inaugural 2017 bond and IPO listing, as well as delivering record operational performance for customers. Since 2020, under Tom’s leadership the Company has doubled its tower portfolio.

Tom joined Helios Towers from PwC, and is a qualified Chartered Accountant of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales.

Other current appointments
None

Appointed to the Board
1 January 2021

Committees
Sustainability Committee
Technology Committee

Skills and experience
Manjit Dhillon joined Helios Towers in 2016. He was appointed CFO in January 2021, having held the positions of interim CFO and Head of Investor Relations and Corporate Finance. Manjit is the Head of the London Office and Sustainability and IT also report into him.

Manjit has overseen transactions including capital raisings of c.US$4.0 billion, substantially reducing the cost of capital, and the acquisitions of multiple tower portfolios across six new high-growth markets. He also played a key role throughout the successful IPO of Helios Towers on the London Stock Exchange in 2019.

Prior to Helios Towers, Manjit has held a number of positions in the financial services sector, including with Deloitte, Goldman Sachs and Lyceum Capital. He is a qualified Chartered Accountant of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales.

Other current appointments
None

Appointed to the Board
12 September 2019

Committees
Audit Committee (Chair)
Remuneration Committee

Skills and experience
Alison Baker has more than 25 years of experience in auditing, capital markets and assurance services. She has worked extensively in emerging markets, including those in Africa.

Until January 2017, Alison was a partner at PwC LLP and, previously, a partner at EY LLP. She is Senior Independent Director of Rockhopper Exploration Plc and Endeavour Mining Plc and is a Non-Executive Director of Capstone Copper Corp.

She is a qualified Chartered Accountant of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales, and gained a Bachelor of Science in Mathematical Sciences from Bath University.

Other current appointments
Rockhopper Exploration Plc, listed on the London Stock Exchange; Endeavour Mining Corp, listed on the Toronto and London Stock Exchanges; Capstone Copper Corp, listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange

Appointed to the Board
12 September 2019

Committees
Audit Committee
Remuneration Committee (Chair)
Technology Committee

Skills and experience
Richard Byrne was appointed to the Board on 12 September 2019, having previously been a Director of Helios Towers, Ltd. since December 2010. Richard co-founded TowerCo in 2004, serving as the company’s President and Chief Executive Officer. He was a member of the board of directors from its inception until his retirement in December 2018.

Before TowerCo, he was President of the tower division of SpectraSite Communications, Inc. Richard has also served as National Director of Business Development at Nextel Communications Inc. From 2008 to 2018, he served on the board of directors of the Wireless Infrastructure Trade Association (‘WIA’) in the US.

Other current appointments
None

Appointed to the Board
12 September 2019

Committees
Nomination Committee

Skills and experience
Temitope Lawani was previously a Director of Helios Towers, Ltd., serving since February 2010. A Nigerian national, he is co-founder and Managing Partner of Helios Investment Partners ('Helios') and is co-Chief Executive and Director of Helios Fairfax Partners Corporation and has more than 25 years of principal investment experience. He is also Non-Executive Director of Pershing Square Holdings Ltd.

Prior to forming Helios, Temitope was a principal in the San Francisco and London offices of TPG Capital, a global private equity firm. Temitope began his career as a corporate development analyst at the Walt Disney Company. He received a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a Juris Doctorate (cum laude) from Harvard Law School and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Other current appointments
Pershing Square Holdings Ltd, listed on the London Stock Exchange, and Helios Fairfax Partners, listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange

Independent Non-Executive Director for Workforce Engagement

Appointed to the Board
15 June 2020

Committees
Nomination Committee
Remuneration Committee
Sustainability Committee

Skills and experience
Sally Ashford joined the Helios Towers Board in June 2020 as Non-Executive Director for workforce engagement. Sally is currently Group HR Director at Informa plc, a role she commenced in June 2021.

Sally has over 30 years’ experience in the field of Human Resources (‘HR’) including significant expertise in reward, talent and business transformation. In her early career, Sally worked in HR research and consultancy before moving in-house. She spent 15 years working in a variety of HR roles in the Telecoms industry at BT, O2 and Telefonica, including European HR Director and Deputy Global HR Director. In 2015, Sally joined Royal Mail where she became Chief Human Resources Officer in June 2018, a role she held until February 2021.

She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Management Science from the University of Manchester and a Master’s degree in Industrial Relations from the University of Warwick.

Other current appointments
Informa plc, listed on the London Stock Exchange

Appointed to the Board
13 August 2020

Committees
Audit Committee
Nomination Committee
Sustainability Committee (Chair)

Skills and experience
Carole Wamuyu Wainaina is currently Senior Advisor to the CEO at the Africa50 Infrastructure Fund. She joined Africa50 in 2017 as the COO.

This followed her role as an Assistant Secretary General at the United Nations in the Department of Management. Carole was previously Executive Vice President and Chief HR Officer at Koninklijke Philips N.V., and also spent 13 years with The Coca Cola Company. There, she held several senior roles across Europe, Eurasia and Africa and also worked as the Chief of Staff to the Global Chairman and CEO.

She is Non-Executive Director for the Equatorial Coca-Cola Bottling Company and ofi, and is a Non-Executive Board Member for the Nairobi International Finance Centre.

Carole holds a Bachelor of Business degree from the University of Southern Queensland in Australia, majoring in Marketing, Human Resources and Organisational Development.

Other current appointments:

NED for Equatorial Coca-Cola Bottling Company, Non-Executive board member of Nairobi International Finance Centre, NED of Olam Food Ingredients

Appointed to the Board
9 May 2024

Committees
None

Skills and experience
David Wassong was reappointed as a Director having previously been a Director from September 2019 to March 2022. Prior to the Company’s listing on the London Stock Exchange, he had been a Director of Helios Towers, Ltd. since January 2010. He is a Partner at Newlight Partners LP, an independent investment manager formed in October 2018 when part of the Strategic Investments Group of Soros Fund Management LLC (“SFM”), spun out of SFM. Previously, David was co-head of the Strategic Investments Group and jointly responsible for overseeing its investment portfolios. Before SFM, David was Vice President at Lauder Gaspar Ventures, LLC. He started his career in finance as an analyst and then as an associate in the investment banking group of Schroder Wertheim & Co., Inc.

David received an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and gained his Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania.

Other current appointments
None

Appointed to the Board
16 September 2024

Committees
Technology Committee (Chair)

Skills and experience
Dana Tobak CBE, was appointed to the Helios Towers Board in September 2024 as Independent Non-Executive Director and Chair of the Technology Committee. Dana is the Co-founder and CEO of Hyperoptic, a role she has held since April 2010.

Dana is a fixed broadband industry pioneer with over two decades’ experience of driving innovation and change and was awarded a CBE for her services to the digital economy in the New Year’s Honours list in 2018.

Previously, Dana was the Co-founder and CEO of Be Unlimited (the first Internet company to offer up to 24mb speeds in the industry), and was a founder of Sapient (now Sapient Publicis) in Europe, where she was an integral member of the leadership team, helping to grow and develop the business in the UK and Germany.

Dana holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Master of Arts degree in International Relations from Tufts University, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.

Other current appointments
Hyperoptic Ltd