{"id":101794,"date":"2015-10-21T11:28:41","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T09:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=101794"},"modified":"2015-10-21T11:28:41","modified_gmt":"2015-10-21T09:28:41","slug":"sentech-appoints-new-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/101794\/sentech-appoints-new-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"Sentech appoints new CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sentech, the state owned broadcasting signal distributor, has appointed Mlamli Booi as the company\u2019s chief executive officer.<\/p>\n<p>Booi commenced his tenure with the company on 13th October 2015 and succeeds Dr. Setumo Mohapi who was appointment as the CEO of the State IT Agency (SITA) effective 1st April 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Sentech had in the interim, appointed Rudzani Rasikhinya, then CFO, as acting CEO.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Board has confidence in Mr. Booi\u2019s ability to provide outstanding leadership and he embodies the experience, vision and leadership skills necessary to lead SENTECH to greater heights. His deep understanding of the ICT sector renders him ideally suited to be our next CEO\u201d said Mello Magatho, chairman of the Board.<\/p>\n<p>Booi\u00a0 has worked in the ICT sector in various positions since 1986.\u00a0 He holds an MSc Degree in Engineering from UCT and a postgraduate diploma in project management.\u00a0 He also holds a Diploma in Company Direction from GIMT (2006).<\/p>\n<p>He is a member of IEEE and IoD South Africa.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Sentech<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/84097\/ex-sentech-ceo-joins-sita\/\">Ex Sentech CEO joins SITA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Sentech strike over\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/65728\/sentech-strike-over\/\"><strong>Sentech strike over<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Government scraps R1 billion IT project: report\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/62671\/government-scraps-r1-billion-it-project-report\/\"><strong>Government scraps R1 billion IT project: report<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sentech, the state owned broadcasting signal distributor, has appointed Mlamli Booi as the company\u2019s chief executive officer. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":35177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,1],"tags":[25,1646,3351],"class_list":["post-101794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-it-services","category-trending","tag-active","tag-sentech","tag-sita"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101800,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101794\/revisions\/101800"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}