The Director General for the Global System for Mobile Communications Association (GSMA), Mats Granryd, is leaving his role. Mats Granyrd will be stepping down next year after the MWC Barcelona 2025 concludes. He has served as Director General for 9 years. After stepping down, Granyrd assumes the role of special advisor to the Board until the end of 2025
“The GSMA board has a solid succession plan in place and I know they are going to find someone of the highest calibre to take on the role. In the meantime, I have no plans to slow down, I am more energised than ever by our progress and will keep pushing to deliver on our ambitious 2024 plan and KPIs!” wrote Granryd.
Prior to joining the GSMA in 2016, Mats was President and CEO of Tele2, one of Europe’s telecom operators with more than 16 million customers across nine countries. The explosive subscriber base growth experienced during his tenure as Tele2 CEO coincided with the 4G rollout.
Throughout his career spanning nearly 40 years in the telecommunications industry, Mat has been at the forefront of several pivotal advancements. He was credited with the deployment of 2G technology in India. He has also been involved in the recent wave of digital transformation sweeping across all sectors and the growth of 5G technology.
He has spent 15 years in a variety of roles at Ericsson, most recently as Head of Northern Europe and Central Asia. While at Ericsson, he also led the North West Europe, India, CDMA and North Africa units, as well as the global customer accounts for Vodafone and Bharti.
The 27th MWC Barcelona scheduled is for 3 to 6 March 2025. GSMA has yet to lay out plans on how the next director general will be appointed.
