Manjot Singh Mann was appointed chief executive of M1 in December 2018, tasked with steering the telecommunications company’s re-invention to keep relevant in a competitive mobile and data marketplace. The telecoms-industry veteran helped to implement a slew of changes, including mix-and-match mobile plans, a new logo and greater customer-service automation; the firm is also poised for the impending launch of standalone 5G services as part of a joint venture in later 2021.

M1 posted revenues of SG$1.07 billion in revenue for 2020, compared to 2018’s figure of S$1.09 million, before Mann came on board. The telco’s post-paid mobile subscribers also stood at 1.61 million at end-2020 compared to 1.38 million compared to the same period two years prior. Mann intends to keep growing the business by leveraging on parent company Keppel Corporation’s enterprise portfolio.

Mann was most recently regional CEO at cloud-software firm Pareteum Corp. He also led Hutchison Telecommunications in Indonesia as its chief executive from 2006-2014, and subsequently spent four years as CEO of communications and convergence for British mobile virtual-network operator Lebara Mobile. He is also a director of Keppel Telecommunications and Transportation.