Bio

Sipho Maseko was appointed as Group Chief Executive Officer and as an Executive Director of Telkom on 1 April 2013. He is also the Chairman of the Board at BCX. Prior, he was the Group Chief Operating Officer and Managing Director at Vodacom, which he joined from BP Southern Africa, where he held various roles from 1997, including COO and CEO. Sipho previously served as Chairman of the Board of SAPREF (Joint Venture between Shell SA and BP SA). Sipho is currently a Non-Executive Director of the Board of the Centre for Development & Enterprise (CDE). He has also been appointed as a Non-Executive Director at BMW SA in 2018. He has a BA as well as an LLB degree.

Other positions:

• Chairman of Business Connexion Group Limited since May 10, 2017.
• Independent Non Executive Director of African Oxygen Ltd. since November 22, 2012 until May 28, 2015.
• Managing Director of Vodacom South Africa (Pty) Limited since September 2011. He has held a number of senior executive positions at Vodacom including: Group Chief Operating Officer of Vodacom, Executive Director of Vodacom Group Limited and Managing Director of South African Operations at Vodacom Group Limited.
• Chairman of the Board of Shell and BP South African Petroleum Refineries (Pty) Ltd (SAPREF) from July 2010 to August 2011.
• Chief Executive Officer and Chief Operating Officer of British Petroleum Southern Africa since 2008.
• Non-executive Director of the Centre for Development and Enterprises