{"id":113013,"date":"2016-02-17T11:19:49","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T09:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=113013"},"modified":"2016-02-17T11:39:52","modified_gmt":"2016-02-17T09:39:52","slug":"mtn-appoints-new-executive-from-discovery-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/113013\/mtn-appoints-new-executive-from-discovery-health\/","title":{"rendered":"MTN appoints new executive from Discovery Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MTN has appointed Benjamin Marais as its new chief information officer, effective 01 March 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Marais joins MTN from Discovery Health where he served in a similar role.<\/p>\n<p>He takes over from Neil Tomkinson, who moves to MTN Group.<\/p>\n<p>In December MTN announced that Jyoti Desai assumed the new position of group chief operating officer, reporting to the executive chairman, Phuthuma Nhleko.<\/p>\n<p>Desai had previously served as group chief technology and information officer.<\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Marais <\/span> has a wealth of experience in the banking, health and digital space, MTN said, and is a qualified engineer with a <span lang=\"EN-US\">BEng, Electronic Engineering qualification from the University of Pretoria.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\"> He worked across the continent, in the United Kingdom and in the Middle East.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Mteto Nyati, MTN South Africa CEO, said that the appointment of Marais is part of a strategy of attracting and retaining the best talent in the market.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on MTN<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/110709\/former-mtn-ceo-joins-huge-board\/\">Former MTN CEO joins Huge board<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/106089\/major-management-changes-at-mtn\/\">Major management shake-up at MTN<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MTN has appointed Benjamin Marais as its new chief information officer, effective 01 March 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":46956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[25,28],"class_list":["post-113013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-active","tag-mtn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113013","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=113013"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113019,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113013\/revisions\/113019"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}