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Ohio State University.
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Phuthuma Nhleko
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Career
The group, which employs 6,000 people, reported turnover of R29bn for the year ended March 2005. He helped build the company to a book value of investments of about R3,5bn. As Chief Executive Officer of MTN group, Mr Nhleko has been appointed in 2007 to the Board of Directors of the Group Special Mobile Association (GSMA), the global trade association for mobile phone operators.
He serves the board during a two-year term from January 2007.
He also practised as a civil engineer and project manager for the Urban Foundation, and was a senior road engineer for the Ministry of Works in Swaziland. Nhleko is a director of Johnnic Holdings, Nedbank Group and Old Mutual Société Anonyme.
Nhleko"s academic qualifications include a Bachelor of Science in civil engineering from Ohio State University and an Master of Business Administration in finance from Atlanta University.
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Nhleko is also chairman and one of the founding members of Worldwide African Investment Holdings, an investment holding company with interests in the petroleum, telecommunications and information technology industries. He was previously a senior member of the Standard Corporate & Merchant Bank corporate finance team
