Over Ineke Botter
Botter started her career in the finance industry from 1984 – 1990 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands and the City of London, United Kingdom. Ineke Botter then switched to the mobile telecommunications industry from 1991 and held senior management (CXO, CEO and BOD level) positions in Ukraine, Hungary, Czech Republic, United Kingdom, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Sweden, Kosovo, Lebanon, Azerbaijan, Haiti and currently East Africa.
As CEO she managed large companies with thousands of personnel and annual revenues of over half a billion US$ through war, bomb attacks, civil unrest, aftermaths of natural disaster and quickly had to become an expert at preparing for the worst. A challenging situation the western world slowly wakes up to now. In 2025 Ineke Botter was appointed ambassador for Telecoms sans Frontières (www.tsfi.org), an NGO that has been indispensable in connecting millions of people during disasters.
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Ineke Botter and her teams have received many awards; from the best CSR, best branding, besttechnology programmes to recognitions from the UN for the work she and her team did for the UNinvestigation into the assassination of former Lebanese PM Rafiq Hariri. She also received a personalaward as Best International Manager whilst working in Azerbaijan.
Subjects Ineke Botter speaks about:
- Managing through war, unrest and disasters
- Managing large companies in emerging markets
- Technology and innovation
- Good governance, especially in corrupt environments
- Entrepreneurship
There are currently less than 1000 mobile networks globally and Ms. Botter was one of the very fewfemale CEOs in the mobile industry. She is also the first one who gives us an insight in this unknownworld where so many stakeholders have enormous, vested interests. Her job especially in verychallenging countries was to make sure that ‘all noses are pointed the same direction’.
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Your phone, my life
Or, how did that phone land in your hand?
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