Surash Patel appointed as Managing Director of BICS
Proximus Group has appointed Surash Patel as Managing Director of its international affiliate BICS. Effective immediately, Mr. Patel will take up the leadership duties which Guillaume Boutin had held ad interim since February. His objective is to further strengthen BICS' leadership position in the telecommunications industry, leading the Global Network Enablement activities across the Group in its journey together with Telesign and Route Mobile to become a worldwide leader in digital communications.
Surash Patel brings a strong background in B2B leadership, driving commercial success and strategic transformations in SaaS and mobile technology businesses. He joins BICS from the company's sister-affiliate Telesign, where as Vice President for EMEA he led the Digital Identity specialist's region to triple-digit growth. He also created the B2B global SaaS provider of mobile CRM, mGage Europe, and in his role as General Manager at RealNetworks, the AI and digital media software company, he achieved 30% growth over 4 years. Mr. Patel also served as Vice-Chair at the Mobile Ecosystem Forum from 2018 to 2021.
Mr. Patel has a degree in Electrical & Electronic Engineering from Brunel University, and an MBA from London Business School.
His new role reinforces Proximus' International brands BICS, Telesign and the recently acquired Route Mobile, with the 3 brands collaborating together on the mutually reinforcing core strengths to connect, engage and protect operator and enterprise customers worldwide.
I have full confidence in Surash that his leadership and experience in fostering growth within the B2B communications industry make him ideally suited to lead BICS. He will play an important role in the next phase of Proximus' international activities, together with Telesign and Route Mobile to create a global leader in digital communications.
