{"id":10907,"date":"2023-02-08T09:14:35","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T09:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paratus.africa\/angola\/?p=10907"},"modified":"2023-02-08T09:26:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T09:26:00","slug":"samantha-geyser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paratus.africa\/angola\/samantha-geyser\/","title":{"rendered":"Samantha Geyser"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>This Queen Bee\u2019s a Hive of Information<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, there are plenty of women working at a high level in male-dominated industries around the world and, for sure, they have worked hard and smart to get to the top.&nbsp; So, what merits singling out this woman\u2019s achievements, other than the fact that it\u2019s Women\u2019s month and that she is a leader within a leading ICT group in Africa?&nbsp; The answer is because Samantha Geyser is making waves, swimming sometimes against, but mostly with, the tide of male influence while applying a few of her feminine wiles to take the business to greater heights.&nbsp; She is a queen bee \u2013 not only because she has a pilot\u2019s licence and can fly with the best of them \u2013 but because she\u2019s just been appointed Chief Information Officer of the Paratus Group.&nbsp; Her knowledge and experience have always been valued by Paratus \u2013 probably the fastest growing telco in Africa currently \u2013 and now they need her to fly higher, and further, across the continent, in the group\u2019s bid to transform Africa through exceptional digital infrastructure and excellent customer service.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Previously Samantha was the executive of customer service in Namibia as well as the Group Project Manager for Paratus; her new role will see Samantha honing those skills in a new and challenging way. As a woman who understands and embraces technology, she has been heading up the department which caretakes the business\u2019s most valued attribute and key competitive differentiator \u2013 its customer service.&nbsp; \u201cEvery single person at Paratus is customer driven.&nbsp; It\u2019s what drives us all in this business\u201d, she says.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Samantha takes up her new role this month and has already begun working on her weighty and ambitious plans to standardise the group\u2019s internal management systems.&nbsp; \u201cWhile standardisation is pretty much impossible in Africa, such are the varied cultures, laws and logistics,\u201d she explains, \u201cI do believe that I can help expedite the Paratus Group\u2019s rapid expansion by providing a template that can be adapted in each new country we enter. I will be looking at all processes and procedures and, wherever and whenever possible, provide \u2018copy and paste options\u2019 so that we don\u2019t reinvent the wheel everywhere we go.&nbsp; If an automated system can work in one country, it should be adapted and deployed in another.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Samantha Geyser is among a handful of women in the Paratus Group\u2019s top tier of management. Previously, and with a team of around 60 players, she managed the group\u2019s support centre, activations department and an impressive roll call of special projects, including the Google Equiano subsea cable landing in Namibia earlier this year.&nbsp; Her new position will see her continuing to handle special projects and working with the group\u2019s country MDs and the Group Exco. \u201cI\u2019m excited about where Paratus is going and about working closely with an exceptional team that make things happen.&nbsp; Although we all have our roles to play, we are working towards one goal and those roles will overlap in many ways. I will be making sure our internal processes match and handle the applications and deals that we strike across the continent in future.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Having been in the telecommunications industry for the past 20 years, Samantha is no stranger to working in a man\u2019s world. Asked about how men in business often treat her, she has a resolute, yet understanding attitude. \u201cUsually they are very surprised to see a lady in my position, but I must admit, my colleagues at Paratus all treat me as an equal and that is very valuable to me.&nbsp; I think to be successful as a woman in a man\u2019s world, you must work smarter, but I count myself lucky to be surrounded by such a supportive network at Paratus and this will certainly help me navigate my way through the man\u2019s world in Africa.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Investing in infrastructure, building expert teams in seven southern African countries, and serving customers across the continent with a seamless quality network service have secured the Paratus Group\u2019s success to date. The Group also has PoPs (points of presence) in the USA, UK and Europe and provides satellite connectivity in 37 African countries; it is the landing partner for the Google Equiano subsea cable in Namibia, and it has built four carrier-neutral data centers in three African countries. Samantha has been at the coalface throughout the group\u2019s steady rise to telecom stardom.&nbsp; She is now eager to clear the path and remove the barriers to doing more great business in new territories.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI think telecommunications is in my veins, connecting everything I do.\u201d&nbsp; This is part way explained by the fact that, while Samantha was growing up in Johannesburg, she was often surrounded by cables because her uncle worked in a telco business.&nbsp; She loved it then and loves it, even more, today, along with her teenage son, cycling and running, her social life, and flying high. For a woman who\u2019s stuck it out, successfully, in a man\u2019s world for two decades, it is fitting that she\u2019s now the Queen Bee giving Paratus the hive of information, and the edge, it needs to secure its continued success through excellent customer service.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Queen Bee\u2019s a Hive of Information&nbsp; Of course, there are plenty of women working at a high level in male-dominated industries around the world and, for sure, they have worked hard and smart to get to the top.&nbsp; So, what merits singling out this woman\u2019s achievements, other than the fact that it\u2019s Women\u2019s month [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10908,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sem-categoria","category-sem-categoria-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Samantha Geyser | Paratus Angola<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Samantha Geyser | Paratus Angola\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This Queen Bee\u2019s a Hive of Information&nbsp; 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