Everyone and everything has to be connected – that's our main focus.
We’re a market-leading IT-centric telecom company, delivering wireless data services through digital platforms throughout Indonesia and the Philippines. Our flexible and efficient model offers an exceptional customer experience at a competitive price, for both private and professional users.
Providing wireless data services to the fastest-growing markets in the industry is at the heart of our business. We focus our attentions on the digital, and have created a fully integrated back end to facilitate distribution with our strategic partners.
We use data to drive our business, ensuring we approach the right customers at the right time by geo-tracking through social media and basing our sales process on a pre-paid, cash-on-delivery system.
We aim to deliver mobile data at the lowest possible cost, while simultaneously creating future-proof networks with room for growth. We do this by building 4G LTE networks and acquiring low band spectrum, which are able to deliver 4G LTE over vast distances, and therefore create the perfect platform for large countries with diffused populations.
With our proven experience in swift turnaround and building lean, customer-centric networks around the world, we’re perfectly placed to expand beyond Indonesia and the Philippines, and to reach new markets.
Contact us at +47 973 004 65 if you have any questions.
Net1 International Corporate structure
Members of the board
J.D. Fouchard
ChairmanTrygve Lauvdal
Board memberJan Sebor
Board memberCHEY Chia Chow
Board memberAmit Vithlani
Board memberJ.D. Fouchard is chairman of the board of Net1 International. He was previously Chief Executive Officer of ice group, a position he assumed in June 2011, as well as a member of Access Industries’ Media and Communications team. He played a leading role in the acquisition of the ice group by Access Industries and has been a board member/director since the acquisition in 2009.
Mr Fouchard joined Access Industries in June 2007 from UBS’s Telecom Investment Banking Group where he worked on numerous transactions involving Vodafone.
Prior to UBS, Mr Fouchard was with Morgan Stanley Capital Partners where he was an analyst within the European Leverage Buyout Group, a USD 3.3 billion fund.
He is a dual Haitian/Swiss national fluent in French, English, Spanish, German and Creole. He is a graduate of ESCP-EAP European School of Management and Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg in Germany.
Mr Trygve Lauvdal serves as an Investment Director at Rasmussengruppen AS. Mr Lauvdal served as a Research Analyst at DNB Markets, Inc., Research Division. He served as Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board at ULTIMO S.A. He has been a Director at B2 Holding AS since 2013. He served as a Non-Executive Director at AINMT AS (Ice Group AS). Mr Lauvdal has a PhD in Civil Engineering.
Mr Jan Sebor is a Vice President with Access Industries, a private investment holding focused on investing in technology, media, telecommunication, industrials and real estate. At Access he is responsible for sourcing, executing and managing new and existing investments. Mr Sebor serves as a Non-Executive Director of Deezer S.A., one of the largest music streaming services worldwide, and used to serve as a Non-Executive Director of Ada Health GmbH, a healthcare technology company.
Prior to Access, Mr Sebor was with Morgan Stanley’s Investment Banking Division focusing on the industrials, chemicals and natural resources sectors.
Mr Sebor has an MSc in Business and Law from the University of Economics in Prague and an MSc in Financial Management from the Vlerick Business School in Gent.
Mr. CHYE Chia Chow, aged 47, currently serves as a director in several Sampoerna-related companies involved in various industries, including agriculture, property, forestry, payment services and telecommunications. Mr. CHYE has over 22 years of experience in financial, investment and corporate strategy and management.
Mr. CHYE’s previous work experience includes: serving as a manager in Tokai Bank, Ltd from June 1996 to October 1999; and consecutively served as several positions in Boston Consulting Group from October 1999 to April 2007, including serving as the principal.
Mr. CHYE obtained a bachelor’s degree of business with first-class honors from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore in June 1996. Mr. CHYE obtained the qualification of Chartered Financial Analyst from the Association for Investment Management and Research in June 1999.
Amit Vithlani is the CFO of Net1 International. Mr. Vithlani has spent a number of years with various telecom operators. He joined Ice Group as a C-Suite advisor in 2017, and worked on a number of financing projects before joining Net1 International in 2018.
Prior to joining Ice Group, Mr. Vithlani was Executive Head of Corporate Finance at South Africane operator, Cell C, and a board member of South African fibre operator Fibreco. Mr. Vithlani has also spent 12 years as a corporate/investment banker in a number of London-based institutions, including the TMT team at BNP Paribas Fortis. He holds a BSc. in Banking & Finance from Loughborough University, UK.
Members of the management team
Linus Jönsson
CEOAmit Vithlani
CFOLinus Jönsson is the CEO of Net1 International and former Managing Director for Net1 Sweden, a position he assumed in October 2012.
Mr Jönsson joined Net1 Sweden from Netgear International, where he worked as Managing Director of the EMEA region. Prior to Netgear, he was with 3Com Corp in the Nordic region. During his career, Mr. Jönsson has held leadership roles in Sales & Marketing in International markets as well as spending 14 years in General Management. He holds a diploma in economics and marketing.
Amit Vithlani is the CFO of Net1 International. Mr. Vithlani has spent a number of years with various telecom operators. He joined Ice Group as a C-Suite advisor in 2017, and worked on a number of financing projects before joining Net1 International in 2018.
Prior to joining Ice Group, Mr. Vithlani was Executive Head of Corporate Finance at South Africane operator, Cell C, and a board member of South African fibre operator Fibreco. Mr. Vithlani has also spent 12 years as a corporate/investment banker in a number of London-based institutions, including the TMT team at BNP Paribas Fortis. He holds a BSc. in Banking & Finance from Loughborough University, UK.