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Yahlive’s legal counsel and company secretary until 2015, Giles Menezes, who has ‘wit’ and ‘energy’, played a pivotal role in the company’s spectacular expansion across the region and beyond. ‘Giles is an instrumental member of the team which has seen the company grow from a start-up, to what is now one of the premier providers of DTH television services across the MENA and Central Asia regions’, senior Yahlive marketing director Ammar Baranbo says. MultiChoice Kenya COO Kurt Otto opines: ‘Giles has been a great balance to an aggressive growth strategy with contribution enabling not just risk mitigation but new business concepts and different approaches to capturing market share’. From a legal perspective, Menezes has been praised highly for managing the strategy’s complex multijurisdictional components and leading ‘first-of-its-kind’ transactions. Heading a small legal and marketing team, Menezes built Yahlive’s function from scratch, and is credited with the function’s strong cohesion with the business. ‘Giles is a most knowledgeable and diligent corporate counsel’, Frank Lucente of Al Tamimi and Company says. ‘He is prepared to understand not only all facets of the business of his employer but all facets of the law relating to the company as well. Giles does not just dump the task onto outside counsel but plays a proactive role’.