Jens Schulte-Bockum

Mr. Jens Schulte-Bockum holds multiple non-executive roles across MTN Group, Africa’s leading telecom provider, and in several privately held digital infrastructure businesses. These include MTN South Africa, MTN Nigeria plc and Bayobab, MTN’s pan-African fibre subsidiary. In addition to the chairman role at Zayo Europe, Jens serves on the boards of Delta Fiber Networks, The Netherlands, and Deutsche Glasfaser Gruppe, Germany, the leading fibre altnets in their respective markets.

He was MTN Group’s Chief Operating Officer from 2017 to 2024. His role included managing the Group functional teams across Commercial, Enterprise and Digital, the new platform businesses Chenosis, Ayoba and Bayobab Fibre, as well as overseeing operations of MTN’s operating companies in Africa and the Middle East.

Before joining MTN Group, he spent 24 years in consulting and telecommunications. He has held senior management roles at McKinsey&Co. and Vodafone Group. He has also served as an independent industrial adviser to multiple private equity players. He was Chief Executive Officer of Vodafone’s largest operating company in Germany where he integrated Kabel Deutschland Holding AG and served as chairman of this listed subsidiary from 2013 to 2015. Mr. Schulte-Bockum has extensive experience in consumer, enterprise and broadband businesses, and in the area of large-scale transformation in converged telecom operations.

Jens holds a M.A. (economics) degree from the University of Chicago and a B.A. (Diplom-Volkswirt) from Kiel University, Germany.