Digicel Jamaica’s incoming CEO, Barry O’Brien was head of the group’s Barbados operations for the last four years.

Andy Thorburn will step up from CEO of Digicel Jamaica to head the telecommunications firm entire Caribbean and Central America operations.

digicel Barbados CEO will take over from Thorburn as well as have oversight for the group’s Cayman operations.

In his new role, Thorburn, who reports to Digicel Group CEO Colm Delves, will have overall responsibility for Digicel’s operations in 25 markets. He willl continue to be based in Digicel’s regional headquarters in downtown Kingston.

O’Brien ran the Barbados operations for the last four years, and aslo oversaw Digicel Dominica and for business solutions across the Eastern Caribbean South.

He said the company’s focus in Jamaica will be on “ensuring that our customers can achieve extraordinary things with Digicel and that we do all that we can to give back to our communities”.

Digicel Group is a telecommunications providers with over 13 million customers across its 31 markets in the Caribbean, Central America and Asia Pacific.

The firm is currently looking to expand into South