Samuel Jonah

Chair +

Samuel Jonah

Chair

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.

Tom Greenwood

Chief Executive Officer +

Tom Greenwood

Chief Executive Officer

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

Manjit Dhillon

Group Chief Financial Officer +

Manjit Dhillon

Group Chief Financial Officer

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

Magnus Mandersson

Deputy Chair +

Magnus Mandersson

Deputy Chair

Appointed to the board:
12 September 2019

Committees
Audit Committee
Nomination Committee
Technology Committee (Chair)

Skills and experience
Magnus Mandersson was appointed Senior Independent Director on 12 September 2019. He has more than 25 years of experience in the Telecommunications and Media sectors.

Magnus worked at Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson for 14 years, where he held various positions including Executive Vice President. He was also President and Chief Executive Officer of SEC, the parent company for Tele2 Europe, held a number of leadership positions in the IKEA Group and Millicom S.A., and was Chair of Next Biometrics Group ASA.

He is Chair of Karnov Group AB and Tampnet ASA, and a board member of Albert Immo Holding S.à.r.l., PMM Advisors S.A. and Interogo Foundation. He has a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Lund University in Sweden.

Other current appointments
Chair of Karnov Group AB, a Sweden-listed company on NASDAQ.

Alison Baker

Senior Independent Non-Executive Director +

Alison Baker

Senior Independent Non-Executive Director

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.

Richard Byrne

Independent Non-Executive Director +

Richard Byrne

Independent Non-Executive Director

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

Helis Zulijani-Boye

Non-Executive Director +

Helis Zulijani-Boye

Non-Executive Director

Appointed to the board:
9 March 2022

Committees
Technology Committee

Skills and experience
Helis Zulijani-Boye is a Managing Director at Paine Schwartz Partners (‘PSP’), a private equity firm focused on sustainable food chain investing. Prior to joining PSP in 2024, she was a Managing Director of Newlight Partners LP, an independent investment manager formed in October 2018 when the Strategic Investments Group ('SIG') of Soros Fund Management LLC spun out. Helis had been with Newlight Partners LP (and its predecessor, SIG) since 2013 and primarily focused on sourcing, executing and managing investments in acceleration of tech-enabled services.

She has over 15 years of experience in the private equity and investment banking industries, having previously worked at the Charterhouse Group, the Carlyle Group and JP Morgan. She currently serves on the board of ASSIST (US-based non-profit organisation matching academically talented students with American independent high schools).

Helis holds a BA in Economics and a Citation in German Language from Harvard University.

Other current appointments
Board member of Ciklum, BayoTech and ASSIST.

Temitope Lawani

Non-Executive Director +

Temitope Lawani

Non-Executive Director

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.

Sally Ashford

Independent Non-Executive Director +

Sally Ashford

Independent Non-Executive Director

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
None

Carole Wamuyu Wainaina

Independent Non-Executive Director +

Carole Wamuyu Wainaina

Independent Non-Executive Director

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