NEWS | Wednesday, 18 July 2007

GO’s Director of Mobile Operations resigns after ten months in his post

Charlot Zahra

After only ten months in the post, Peter Gauci has resigned as Director of Mobile Operations at telecoms company GO.
A company announcement at the Malta Stock Exchange on 6 July said that Gauci, 60, was going to fulfil the duties related to his post “until an appropriate replacement is found”. The company thanked Gauci “for his loyal service and wished him success on his retirement”.
GO would not comment as to whether Gauci’s departure was pre-planned or sudden.
In an interview published last May in the Sunday Circle magazine, Gauci had not indicated that he was going to retire, so much so that his interviewer, Colin Fitz, concluded his article with the comment “I suspect it will be a few years yet before he decides to hang up his remarkable business experience and dedicate all his time to his long-time hobbies of fishing, fine wine, good food at his favourite restaurant The Black Pearl, and attending army reunions”.
Gauci had a long and successful career in various commercial activities both locally and abroad. Before returning to Malta after an absence of some 30 years, he held several senior management positions with international companies both in the UK and other European countries.
Following a stint with RoboPhone, where he was regional manager responsible for the Midlands and the North of England, he joined US giant Dictaphone and took up responsibility for sales activities in Europe, Africa, Scandinavia and New Zealand.
Upon returning to Malta some years later he joined real estate company Frank Salt until he accepted an appointment on the Go Mobile management team during the company’s first days of entering the Maltese market in early 2000.
Gauci was appointed Head of Corporate Sales, playing a key part in the early plans of the launching of GO mobile products and services and establishing a dealer network for the company.
In September 2006 he was appointed Director Mobile Operations at Maltacom plc, which had just been sold to Tecom Ltd of Dubai, effectively taking over from Prof. Juanito Camilleri who had left for rival Melita Cable plc.