The Rise To Fame And Fortune
A good education and hard work reaps many rewards. Mo worked for British Telecom for a while, and then moved to its subsidiary Cellnet as technical director. In 1989, he founded MSI, a consultancy and software company, which was bought out by the Marconi Company in the year 2000 for around $900 million. After he founded Celtel in 1998, he sold it to Kuwait’s Mobile Telecommunications Company in 2005 for $3.4 billion. Notice the trend here? In 2006 he founded the Mo Ibrahim Foundation which promotes good governance in Africa. We are certain to hear about this 73 year old shrewd businessman again for sure.
