India, Dec. 6 -- The telecom industry's tiniest club has a new member.
With her appointment to the Optus CEO top post, Kelly Bayer Rosmarin has become one of a handful of women to run a telecom operator.
To be exact, among the 40 or Asia-Pacific telcos, only five have found their way to appointing a female CEO and only one has a female chairperson.
It isn't just an Asian problem, of course. No Tier 1 telco anywhere has put a woman in the CEO office.
But it's quite severe in this part of the world.
A Light Reading analysis of 28 Asian operators has found that 21 had boards with 80% or more males and 16 had a senior executive team that was at least 80% male.
Only two companies have boards that are more than 40% female.
One is Spark New...