Dig­i­cel T&T has an­nounced the pro­mo­tion of Abra­ham Smith to the head of the com­pa­ny.

In a re­lease the com­pa­ny stat­ed that this comes as the cur­rent CEO, Jab­bor Kayu­mov, moves to take on an­oth­er se­nior lead­er­ship role with­in the Group.

The com­pa­ny not­ed that Smith, who joined Dig­i­cel T&T in 2019 has pre­vi­ous­ly held CEO roles with Smart Tele­com in Nepal, Oore­doo in the Mal­dives and Ucell in Uzbek­istan.

When Smith joined Dig­i­cel T&T as Con­sumer Di­rec­tor, he worked along­side out­go­ing CEO, Jab­bor Kayu­mov. The com­pa­ny de­scribed Smith as be­ing in­stru­men­tal in con­ceiv­ing and dri­ving cus­tomer-first dig­i­tal ini­tia­tives that have res­onat­ed with cus­tomers and staff.

THe com­pa­ny not­ed that Smith’s con­tri­bu­tions have trans­lat­ed in­to in­creased us­age and rev­enues and saw Dig­i­cel record­ing its best ever year in T&T in 2019.

Oliv­er Cough­lan, Dig­i­cel CEO Caribbean and Cen­tral Amer­i­ca said Smith’s con­tri­bu­tion to the suc­cess of the com­pa­ny’s op­er­a­tions in T&T has been sig­nif­i­cant and his com­mer­cial, cus­tomer-first and dig­i­tal savvy—cou­pled with his strong abil­i­ty to build and lead a team—are con­stant­ly high­light­ed by the staff at all lev­els in the or­gan­i­sa­tion.