Ioannidis was changed from his position in July 2011, when the OTE group and the Romanian government jointly decided to appoint Stefanos Teocharopoulos as CEO of Romtelecom, in addition to his position as CEO of Cosmote Romania.
The other changes, according to data obtained by ZF, are the replacing of Ioan Botis – executive operations manager and the non-extension of the contract for Steven Gardiner – Marketing manager within the Business solutions division – a little known manager on the local market.
In response to a ZF request, Romtelecom partly confirmed the information. The company confirmed the departure of Efthymios Papapostolou “for personal reasons, through the consent of the parties.” The company has also announced the appointment of Bob Konstantinidis as Executive Manager for Operations and Technology.
“Bob Konstantinidis has been confirmed as of November 1 2011 as Chief Technology and Operations Officer, a position he had filled temporarily since July this year, when he replaced Wolfgang Breuer who left the company. Konstantinidis has been part of the Romtelecom team for over 3 years (…) He knows the Romtelecom business very well,” Romtelecom officials said.
Konstantinidis was practically promoted to Romtelecom’s top management.
As for Ioan Botis, Romtelecom specified that the manager has recently taken over “following a selection process and is holding, until final validation, the position of Executive in charge of Central Security within Romtelecom. From this position he coordinates a wide range of activities in IT and infrastructure security and reports directly to the CEO.”
As for Steve Gardiner – a low-profile expat in the Romtelecom team, the company specified the company’s contract with the manager had expired and was not extended.