BIOGRAPHY
Mr. Per Erik Hylland was appointed to the board of Telenor Group on June 25, 2007, and is also chairman of the company’s human resources committee and its health, safety, security, and environment committee. He is the senior vice president of Telenor Asia and serves as chief representative officer for Bangladesh and Myanmar. Mr. Hylland has professional experience in the banking, information technology, and telecommunications industries. He joined Telenor in 1994 and since then has held several senior management positions. During the past fourteen years, he has worked in several countries as a Telenor representative in Central and Eastern Europe and Asia. During this period, Mr. Hylland acted as a director for Telenor companies in Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia. He is an engineer in information technology and was educated at the Norwegian Ministry of Defense.
Telenor Group–Myanmar
Telenor Myanmar will provide accessible and affordable mobile communications to people across Myanmar, launching services in 2014. Telenor Myanmar is part of Telenor Group, one of the world’s major mobile operators. The company has more than 160 million subscriptions across Europe and Asia, as well as mobile operations in twelve markets and in an additional seventeen markets through its ownership of VimpelCom Ltd. Telenor Group also has a leading Nordic position in mobile, broadband, and TV services.
Telenor has been present in Asia for more than fifteen years. With operations in six Asian markets, it is the only European telecommunications company reaching across the region. Asia accounts for 143 million of Telenor’s subscriptions and more than two-thirds of its workforce. Three of its Asian operations are publicly listed in the region.
Telenor is one of the top 500 companies by market value, according to the Financial Times, and it is a consistent top performer in the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes. The group has 33,000 employees worldwide and 2012 revenues were NOK101.7 billion (USD19 billion). Telenor was founded in 1855 as a public service company in Norway and builds on more than 155 years of telecom experience.