IHS Holding Limited (IHS Towers) announced the appointment of Bill Bates as Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer. Based in the US, Bill will be responsible for the Group's organic and inorganic strategy, running Group mergers and acquisitions and Group Commercial, reporting directly to Sam Darwish, IHS Towers Chairman and CEO. With immediate effect, Bill will serve as a member of IHS Towers' Executive Committee.

Bill has over twenty years' experience in the telecommunications sector and has been instrumental in driving international growth throughout the emerging markets for SBA Communications. He joins IHS Towers from Brookfield Asset Management, where he has spent the last five years investing in towers, fiber and data centers.