Avi Gabay (Photo by Kfir Sivan, Flash 90 / Miriam Elster)
The search committee set up to find Cellcom’s new CEO has set off, and the latest names have been submitted to the company’s board of directors, which will decide on the identity of the new CEO after Avi Gabay’s surprise departure. The person who had faith in the screening and accompanied the locating process was “Amada Group” – the senior placement company, and CEO Nurit Berman, who serves as the group’s chairman.
As you may recall, the communications market went into a spin, when the CEO of Cellcom announced his resignation as chairman of Doron Cohen, precisely after the company’s excellent reports in the third quarter. Together with Shlomo Rodev – Chairman of Bitan Wines, to purchase the controlling shares in the communications company Partner in a transaction worth $ 300 million.
Two weeks after Gabay left the position of CEO, Atara Litvak-Shaham, who held the position of Deputy VP of Marketing together with the position of VP of Innovation and Digital at Cellcom, also announced her departure. By Gabay and is considered a modern hand in society.
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After the communications company’s CFO, Shai Amsalem, refused the offer to temporarily replace Gabay, who immediately left Cellcom, who will be replaced by Cellcom’s chairman, Doron Cohen, who serves as CEO of DSCS. A position he will probably fill in the next two to three months until a new CEO is appointed.
Two names from the company that came up as a possibility to replace Gabay are: Ilan Segal and Eli Addi. Segal – CEO of Golan Telecom who also serves as the group’s VP of Business Development, who also received additional management powers from Gabay just a few weeks ago – is responsible for the marketing strategy. Addi – Dynamics Network and also serves as the company’s VP, and also has additional responsibility for the sale of end equipment.
Cellcom was in no hurry to promote Segal and Eddie as deputies, and the very establishment of the search committee will indicate that the board may be interested in an external figure. The surprising name that submitted his candidacy and reached the finish line – Holmes Place CEO.
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Shatui has a rich past at Cellcom when she worked for the communications company for no less than 20 years until she left the position of CEO of Holmes Place four years ago. Shatui served in her last positions at Cellcom as VP of the business sector.
In the hot names section that submitted their candidacy, Shatui is considered a leader in light of her familiarity with the media company from within, and also the fact that she is an outside candidate who has proven herself and will not cause internal battles among senior management if one of them is promoted.
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Another name under the media radar is 51-year-old Daniel Sapir, CEO of the ICT Group – the company of service and telemarketing centers. In the past, Sapir served as VP of the business sector at Pelephone, and has served as CEO of ICT for the past nine years.
The Holmes Place group responded: “We are not responding to rumors, whether true or false.”
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