Netflix Names African Telecom Exec Strive Masiyiwa to Board With Susan Rice Set to Exit
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variety.comTodd Spangler NY Digital EditorNetflix named Strive Masiyiwa, founder and chairman of telecom and tech company Econet Group, to its board of directors.Masiyiwa’s appointment to the streamer’s board comes a week after Susan Rice, former U.S.
ambassador to the U.N., said she was relinquishing her Netflix board seat to join president-elect Joe Biden’s administration as of Jan.
20, 2021.Masiyiwa, who has an estimated net worth of $1 billion, heads up Econet, which has operations and investments in 29 countries in Africa and Europe.
He launched mobile phone network Econet Wireless Zimbabwe, his native country, in 1998.“We are delighted to welcome Strive to the Netflix board,” Netflix co-founder, chairman and co-CEO Reed Hastings said in a.
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