Avanti Communications Group plc has announced that Alan Paul Harper has joined the Board of Avanti as a non-executive director with effect from 17 March 2017. Alan Harper is Chairman of Azuri Technologies, Chairman and Non-Executive Director at Gigabit Fibre, a Non-Executive Director at MTN, and is a leading figure in the mobile network industry for both the UK and Africa. Alan co-founded Eaton Towers in 2008 and held the position of Chief Executive Officer until early 2015.