Hanif Tai

Mr Hanif is the Chief Executive Officer of My Country Mobile and a Board member of various divisions within My Country Mobile, having extensive experience in the areas of telecom business operations, regulations, revenue models along with privatization, project finance, other financial transactions, and private placements. Mr. Hanif is a results-oriented leader and an advocate of firm corporate governance and transparency. He has more than 25 years track record of solid telecoms, financial and managerial experience in South Africa and India. With a strong corporate finance background and expertise, Mr. Hanif has solid relationships with investment and commercial banking communities across the region.

Prior to his appointment, Mr. Hanif was the Chief Operating Officer of My Country Mobile, having joined the operation in January 2005 as Group CEO at Swadesh Mobile. He assumed his latest role having achieved many accomplishments in his outstanding record, with over 20 years of experience in the fields of Information Technology and Telecommunications. In Swadesh Mobile, Mr. Hanif helped build a nationwide network while deploying the latest technologies, including 3G and mobile broadband, which contributed to substantially increasing the customer base while sustaining the company’s market leadership position. He began his Mobile Telecom experience having joined Swadesh Mobile in 2005, and together with a small team that launched the first mobile prepaid service for NRIs in India, which went on to dominate the country’s prepaid mobile customer base for NRIs in India.

Mr. Hanif is a visionary Technologist who has also played a pioneering role in outlining the contours of an emerging technology format and delivery model that Prepaid Mall has come up for the Prepaid industry in the form of a first of its kind in India a B2B portal that serves the different products of the prepaid industry like prepaid mobile top up, direct to home services, bill payments, utility services etc and brings all these services to retailers and distributors. Described as focused and futurist, Hanif's distinctive leadership style and efforts have resulted in forming a 300 Million Dollar strong revenue chain for Prepaid Malls unique B2B portal services.