{"id":110709,"date":"2016-01-29T14:09:44","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T12:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=110709"},"modified":"2016-01-29T14:10:39","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T12:10:39","slug":"former-mtn-ceo-joins-huge-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/110709\/former-mtn-ceo-joins-huge-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Former MTN CEO joins Huge board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Listed telecoms group Huge has appointed Zunaid Bulbulia as an independent non-executive director of the company and a member of the Audit Committee.<\/p>\n<p>Bulbulia was one of the founding members of the MTN team.<\/p>\n<p>During his 20 years with MTN South Africa he served as financial manager and in\u00a0 various\u00a0 GM positions, including GM of subscriber operations and service operations.<\/p>\n<p>He\u00a0 was appointed CFO of MTN South Africa\u00a0 in\u00a0 2005 and CEO in May 2013. In August 2014 he was appointed group chief operations executive of MTN Group.<\/p>\n<p>As CEO of MTN South Africa and\u00a0 goup chief operations executive for MTN Group, he\u00a0 was tasked with bolstering MTN\u2019s competitive position in the various markets in which MTN operates.<\/p>\n<p>He left MTN Group in December 2015 to pursue various business opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>Bulbulia holds a BCom Accounting Degree from the University of Witwatersrand, as well as a BCompt Honours (CTA)\u00a0 from\u00a0 the University of South Africa and is a qualified Chartered Accountant.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Huge and MTN<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/38926\/mtn-sa-gets-new-ceo\/\">MTN SA gets new CEO<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/105535\/huge-group-reports-surge-in-interim-profit\/\">Huge Group reports surge in interim profit<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listed telecoms group Huge has appointed Zunaid Bulbulia as an independent non-executive director  of the company and a member of the Audit Committee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":18076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[25,24,28],"class_list":["post-110709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-active","tag-huge","tag-mtn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110709","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=110709"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110715,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110709\/revisions\/110715"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}