What is Bob Collymore?
[[File:Connected Kenya Summit 2012 - Bob Collymore (cropped).jpg|thumb|200px|Collymore in 2012]] '''Robert William Collymore''' (13 January 1958 – 1 July 2019) was a [[Guyana|Guyanese]]-born [[British people|British]] businessman. He most notably served as the [[chief executive officer]] of [[Safaricom]], a multinational [[telecommunication]]s company based in [[Kenya]]. He became CEO of Safaricom in 2010. Before this position, he worked for [[Dixons Retail]], [[O2 (UK)|Cellnet]] and [[Vodafone]]. Collymore took medical leave in 2017 after being [[Medical diagnosis|diagnosed]] with [[acute myeloid leukaemia]]. He died of the disease on 1 July 2019 in [[Nairobi]]. He was 61.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2001332086/safaricom-ceo-bob-collymore-is-dead|title=Long serving Safaricom CEO Bob Collymore is dead|work=The Standard|date=1 July 2019|access-date=1 July 2019}}</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}} {{Bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Collymore, Bob}} [[Category:1958 births]] [[Category:2019 deaths]] [[Category:British chief executives]] [[Category:Deaths from acute myeloid leukemia]] [[Category:Guyanese people]]