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Chris Wood
Chief Executive Officer
West Indian Ocean Cable Company (WIOCC)
Private Sector & Development author
Chris Wood joined the WIOCC Group as CEO in 2008, driving the company through its start-up phase and into full-scale operations. Chris is the Co-Chair of the EASSy Management Committee, his career having spanned over 20 years in the telecommunications industry. A qualified accountant, Chris Wood has held leadership positions in a variety of fields in major telecommunications companies. Before joining WIOCC in 2008, he was VP Commercial Operations, Marketing & Product Development at FLAG Telecom (now Reliance Globalcom), a global network services provider.
West Indian Ocean Cable Company (WIOCC)
The WIOCC Group is the parent company of Group Companies WIOCC, comprising Africa’s digital hyperscale carrier and Africa’s fastest-growing and award-winning data centre company, Open-Access Data Centres (OADC). The Group is pioneering and accelerating Africa’s digital transformation, creating an environment in which all Africans can take advantage of world-class technology developments to build better lives, better businesses, and a better world. It is achieving this by deploying a converged open-access digital infrastructure across Africa, an infrastructure that will underpin and expedite Africa’s digital transformation.