Uninor, on Wednesday announced the appointment of its new Chief Operating Officer. Tanveer Mohammad takes up this position from his current responsibility as the Chief Technology Officer at Grameenphone, Telenor Group’s operating company in Bangladesh, which is also the largest mobile operator in the country.

Tanveer Mohammad brings with him more than 17 years of operational, development and corporate experience in Telecom Industry. Joining Grameenphone as a System Engineer in 1997 Tanveer has played a key role in building the Technology organization while progressing through the organization in various leadership roles within Technology division and eventually taking up the CTO role in 2010. He has also played an integral role in transforming Grameenphone into a 3G operator last year.

"With his proven competence in leading bold and transformative initiatives in network and technology in Bangladesh’s largest mobile operator, Tanveer joins us at Uninor as we are setting the stage for some bold growth and expansion in India. Uninor’s largest ever network expansion is already underway and our focus on sabse sasta internet will see some new solutions on the network side too. We are delighted to have the advantage of Tanveer’s experience at Uninor,” said Morten Karlsen Sorby , CEO of Uninor.

Uninor’s present COO Ruza Sabanovic moves to the Telenor Group headquarters in Oslo to take up the position of the Head of Group Technology. In this position, Ruza will drive the network and IT transformation agenda across Telenor Group companies in Europe and Asia.

“Ruza has been one of the major architects of Uninor’s ultra low cost operations – our ability to produce minutes much more efficiently that any of our competitors and deliver to the business’ needs. This has played a key role in allowing Uninor to position its services as Sabse Sasta in the market while attaining financial break-even in record time. Ruza now takes up a brief to implement network and technology transformation across Telenor Group and we are proud to see yet another Uninor leader in a top strategic role in the Group"

Ruza becomes the fourth top management resource from Uninor to take up international leadership positions with the Telenor Group.