­Starcomms is a CDMA network operator based in Nigeria. In an announcement, it said that Maher Qubain, its CEO/Managing Director is set to vacate his position in the company. Logan Pather who had come on board the company as Chief Operating Officer in February 2011, is also named by Starcomms as its Acting CEO and Managing Director.

According to Chairman Chief Maan Lababidi, Maher had joined Starcomms as early as 2002 when the company was still in its initial stages of development. The company was then operating as a fixed wireless operator in Lagos with 2,500 subscribers and 4 base stations. Since then the company has grown into a national telecommunication operator with a presence in 22 states, 31 cities, 175 towns, over 900 base stations and 1.6 million active subscribers.

On the other hand, Logan Pather, the Acting CEO had also held leadership positions since 1994, in the African telecoms market. He had rendered 5 years of service to Telkom South Africa, 3 years at Vodacom South Africa as Regional Manager. Eventually, he had joined MTN Cameroon as General Manager in 2001; later to become the CEO of Telecel in Zambia in 2004. In addition, he had served as Managing Director of Roamware Africa for the last 5 years.