{"id":11276,"date":"2012-05-02T09:24:19","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T07:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=11276"},"modified":"2012-05-02T15:03:14","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T13:03:14","slug":"powertech-ceo-steps-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/11276\/powertech-ceo-steps-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Powertech CEO steps down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Altron\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/2457-Altron\">Allied Electronics Corporation (Altron)<\/a> has on Wednesday (2 May 2012) announced the resignation of <a title=\"Norbert Claussen\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/2459-Norbert-Claussen\">Norbert Claussen<\/a>, chief executive officer of subsidiary group, <a title=\"Powertech\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/2458-Powertech\">Powertech<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Claussen was also a member of the board of Altron and will step down with effect from 30 June 2012 in order to take up an opportunity to invest in a business unrelated to Altron.<\/p>\n<p>Claussen joined the Altron group in 1996 as the chief executive officer of<br \/>\nWillard Batteries which expanded over five years to become the Powertech<br \/>\nBattery Group, comprising Willard Batteries, Dynamic Batteries, Sabat<br \/>\nBatteries and Battery Technologies.<\/p>\n<p>In March 2001 he was appointed CEO of Powertech, a position which he has held to date.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn announcement appointing Mr Claussen&#8217;s successor as chief executive officer of Powertech will be made to shareholders in due course,\u201d Altron said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Allied Electronics Corporation (Altron) has on Wednesday announced the resignation of Norbert Claussen, CEO of subsidiary group, Powertech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":3569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[25,2353,309,2607,1381],"class_list":["post-11276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-it-services","tag-active","tag-allied-electronics-corporation","tag-altron","tag-norbert-claussen","tag-powertech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11276","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11276"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11279,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11276\/revisions\/11279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}