Avi Gabay (Facebook photo / Avi Gabay)
The board of directors of the communications company will convene today (Wednesday) to discuss the three final candidates for the position of CEO, following the dramatic departure of Avi Gabay.
As we published in ice for the first time: The leading candidates who reached the finish line are: Eli Addi – CEO of Dynamics and also serves as VP of Cellcom, Keren Shatui – CEO of Holmes Place, and Daniel Sapir – CEO of ICT Group – Service and Telemarketing Company .
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Cellcom executives consider the three candidates worthy, but the decision will fall into the hands of the board of directors. All three also have significant experience in the cellular and communications world in general, and in Cellcom in particular. Eddie as mentioned serves as a senior in the company; 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. Sapir, 51, previously served as VP of the business sector at Pelephone, and has served as CEO of ICT for the past nine years.
At this time, the dramatic board meeting has not yet been scheduled, but in light of the media reports, they are trying to promote its existence today in the afternoon at 5 pm. This is after the departure of Avi Gabay.
As we revealed at ice three weeks ago, the leading candidate of the three on the board is Daniel Sapir, CEO of ICT. A clear decision among the members of the board of directors. On his shoulders will be the challenge of stabilizing the cellular company, and the continuation of the many projects that began in the past year. Gabay’s excellent relations with the workers’ committee, and chairman Mia Yaniv, were also on the agenda, when criticism began to be heard about Sapir’s poor acquaintance with the cellular field in recent years.
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.
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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.
After the communications company’s CFO, Shai Amsalem, refused the offer to temporarily replace Gabay, who immediately left Cellcom, the person who replaced Gabay is Cellcom’s chairman, Doron Cohen, who serves as CEO of DSCSD.
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