Career

Zeinal Bava holds a degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from University College of London. In June 4, 2013, Zeinal Bava was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Oi and remained as Chief Executive Officer of PT Portugal (Operational Company) but left PT SGPS (PT Group Holding Company) board. In August 6, 2014, Zeinal Bava announced he would leave PT Portugal in order to focus on running the new telecommunications company formed from the merger of Portugal Telecom and Oi.

On October 7, 2014, Zeinal announced his resignation from Oi.

Back in April, 2008 Zeinal Bava was appointed Chief Executive Officer of PT and was re-elected in April 2012 for the 2012–2014 term. He began his career at PT as Chief Financial Officer of the Pay-television division (former PT Multimédia, now ZON Multimédia) in 1999 and was Group Chief Financial Officer of PT from 2000 to 2006. which aggregated PT"s investments in various African countries and East Timor).

Prior to joining PT, Zeinal Bava served as Executive Director and Relationship Manager for Portugal of Merrill Lynch International from 1998 until 1999, of Deutsche Morgan Grenfell from 1996 until 1998 and of Warburg Dillon Read from 1989 until 1996. Bava was born in Mozambique.

Achievements

• 2009: Best Chief Executive Officer in Investor Relations for “Investor Relations & Governance (IRGA)”, an event from Deloitte. 2010: Best Chief Executive Officer in European telecommunications sector, from Institutional Investor. Best Chief Executive Officer in Portugal from Extel 2011: Second best Chief Executive Officer in European telecommunications sector and best Chief Executive Officer in Portugal, pela Institutional Investor. 2012: Best Chief Executive Officer in Portugal and best Chief Executive Officer in European telecommunications sector, from Institutional Investor. As Chief Financial Officer of PT Group, was elected three times, in a row, 2003, 2004 e 2005 as best European chief financial officer (Chief Financial Officer) in telecommunications, from Institutional Investor. In 2014, Zeinal Bava was awarded the "Grã-Cruz da Ordem do Mérito Empresarial - Classe do Mérito Comercial" by the President of the Republic of Portugal. More recently was also awarded "doctor honoris causa" by the Universidade da Beira Interior (Portugal) for contributions in promoting innovation and technological modernisation and roll out of state of the art networks including FTTH and 4G. During his tenure at PT, Bava was also member of the General Council of Cotec Portugal. Member of the Council of Founders of Fundação Casa da Música. Member of the Board of Directors of Fundação Luso Brasileira and member of the Board of Directors of Fundação Portugal África.

Membership

During his 10 years at PT, before becoming Chief Executive Officer of the company, he held key management roles in the main business units of PT as Chief Executive Officer of the Pay-television division from 2003 until the company’s spin-off in 2007, as Vice-President and Head of the residential unit of the fixed-line business (PT Comunicações) in Portugal, as Chief Executive Officer of the domestic mobile division (TMN), as member of the Board of Directors of Brasilcela(which held PT"s 50pc ownership in Brazil"s leading mobile company, Vivo),s Chairman of the Board of the shared-services unit (PT Pro) and as member of the Board of PT Internacional. Additionally, Zeinal Bava helds several management roles in Brazil, being a member of the Board of Directors of Telemar Participacoes Société Anonyme, companies of Oi group, and member of the Board of Directors of Contax participations Société Anonyme and of the Board of CTX Participacoes Société Anonyme. Zeinal Bava resigned from all these positions when was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Oi in June 2014.