Tony Christodoulou

Tony Christodoulou is currently the CIO for the EMEA region (Middle East, Europe, and Africa) of a Global Fortune 500 company, American Tower Corporation. Tony is a Senior Global Executive, strategic, operational & execution specialist with broad experience in many avenues of business from Digital business transformation to merges and acquisitions, largely in the Financial and Telecommunications Sector.

Tony has managed many large complex cross-border portfolios’ and has strategically derived Business/I.T/Digital Strategies and driven their effective execution and in all aspects from Operations, Compliance to process efficiencies Innovation and integration within Retail/Corporate Banking and Telco infrastructure, Tower deployments and operations across the globe.

He managed work-streams within the Barclays-Absa merger and acquisition in 2006, was heavily involved and ran the IT workstream for the American Tower-Airtel Acquisition and integration in Nigeria in 2015, the ATC/FPS Tower France Acquisition in 2017, the Telkom assets acquisition in Kenya in 2018 and in 2020 the $2 Billion Acquisition of Eaton Towers across Africa and the Middle East for American tower. Now recently in 2021 the acquisition of Telxius Towers ($9.4 billion investment with a portfolio of 31,000 communication sites across Europe and LATAM).

Tony is a Member of the PMSA (Project Management South Africa) and a member of the CIO Council of South Africa. Tony has been featured in the CIO Directory over the past 6 years, a guide to the country's IT decision-makers, they feature the profiles of over 200 chief information officers and IT directors from top South African private and public sector organisations.

Qualifications

• BIS (Bond University)
• BCom (Marketing) (Bond University)
• MBA (GIBS)
• Innovative Technology Leader EP (Stanford University)
• Competing on Business Analytics and Big Data (Harvard Business School)
• PRINCE2 Practitioner & Foundation in MSP (Managing Successful Programmes)

Core Discipline

• Information systems

Work Experience

• Adjunct Faculty (Gordon Institute of Business Science )
• Executive Director (ATCOR)
• Lecturer (Gordon Institute of Business Science )
• Consultant (Standard Bank)
• Executive Director (AC Sqaured Solutions)
• Senior manager (ABSA)
• Manager (Investec (Pty) Ltd)
• Staff member (Barclays Africa)
• Lecturer (Damelin Education Group)

Teaching/Coaching Experience

• Tech Disruption (Gordon Institute of Business Science )
• Operations Management (Gordon Institute of Business Science )
• Information Technology-EDP (Gordon Institute of Business Science )
• Strategic management (Gordon Institute of Business Science )
• Project Management (Gordon Institute of Business Science )
• Managing Projects Strategically (Gordon Institute of Business Science )
• Project Management for Non-Project Managers (Gordon Institute of Business Science )
• Info and knowledge management (Gordon Institute of Business Science )
• Effective Execution (Gordon Institute of Business Science )