Avanti Communications Group plc announces that CEO, David Williams, is stepping down from the board and leaving the company. His immediate replacement will be Alan Harper, currently a board non-executive director who joined in March 2017, who will assume the role of interim CEO. Alan is a highly respected telecoms veteran from the telecoms industry with relevant experience in European and African markets.

He has worked at Vodafone as Group Strategy Director and more recently founded and ran Eaton Towers, which served most of the major telcos that are a key part of the strategy for expansion at Avanti. Alan is also chairman of Azuri Technologies and of Gigabit as well as a non-executive director of MTN.