TIM today announced the appointment of Sami Foguel as the chief executive officer — replacing Stefano De Angelis.

Stefano Angelis was under pressure from some of the shareholders to improve performance of TIM, a leading telecom operator in Italy.

TIM said Stefano De Angelis resigned from his position as CEO, due to the expiration of his two-year expatriate agreement.

Sami Foguel is graduated in Engineering from UNICAMP and holds an MBA from the University of Michigan.

Sami Foguel was vice-president of Costumer Operations and cargo chief officer of Azul Airlines, since 2014, and chief operating officer at TAP Air Portugal, since 2017.

In addition, Sami Foguel also served for five years as vice-president of Products, Segments, CRM and Customer Experience of Banco HSBC in Brazil and for more than 10 years as associate partner and other positions at Mckinsey & Company.