Tom Tudor

Tom joined the Liquid Telecom Group in January 2013 to manage brand, marketing and communications across all of the Liquid Telecom Group companies. Since repurposing the Liquid Telecom brand, he recently rebranded Kenya Data Networks (KDN) as Liquid Telecom, and rationalised the Liquid Telecom product portfolio. He is currently working of the launch of a new Rwanda Telecom retail brand, and the launch of ipidi tv, an IP TV platform promoting African content. Other brands managed in the portfolio include Realtime and CECLiquid Telecom in Zambia, ZOL in Zimbabwe and Infocom in Uganda. The East African Data Centre in Nairobi also falls under Tom's remit.

Until 2012 Tom was Marketing Director for the African wholesale carrier Gateway Communications (a private company sold to Vodacom for $700m in Aug 2008) where he had been responsible for its marketing and communications strategy since 2005. During this time he managed the integration of the Link Africa and GS Telecom brands into Gateway and was constructive in rebranding and integrating the enterprise assets into Vodacom Business. Tom has worked closely with the international teams at Vodacom and Vodafone, as well as more recently with PCCW Global, a subsidiary of Hong Kong Telecom. Prior to this he worked for Energis, Cable & Wireless and Opal Telecom in a variety of product, business development and marketing roles.