Dark Fibre Africa (DFA), a South African open access fibre optic provider, has bolstered its management team with the appointments of Reshaad Sha and Brian Alwar.
Sha will take on the role of DFA’s chief strategy officer, while Alwar becomes chief sales and marketing officer.
The current DFA network in South Africa covers 7,300km and is open to all licensed operators, with the aim being to expand it by another 1,300km over the next 12 months.
DFA chief executive officer (CEO) Gustav Smit said: “In a recent measurement, DFA has estimated that through its open access fibre deployment, at least 4500 jobs have been created directly as well as indirectly.
“Additionally, an innumerable amount of businesses and consumers are experiencing the benefit of the DFA fibre network deployment.”
Sha’s background includes a spell working as director of strategy for Cisco Systems in the emerging markets.
Smit said: “Sha’s responsibility is to lead DFA’s future growth strategic planning as well as an increased focus in areas of the businesses that require both medium and long term direction.”
Alwar has more than 20 years experience in the telecommunications sector and Smit said his role will be to seek new market opportunities and coordinating the business developments and sales teams.
