{"id":134949,"date":"2016-08-30T13:49:27","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T11:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=134949"},"modified":"2016-08-30T13:49:27","modified_gmt":"2016-08-30T11:49:27","slug":"telkom-marketing-chief-quits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/134949\/telkom-marketing-chief-quits\/","title":{"rendered":"Telkom marketing chief quits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Telecoms veteran Enzo Scarcella is leaving his role as chief marketing officer at Telkom after spending three years at the company.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to joining Telkom, Scarcella was the managing executive at South Africa\u2019s biggest mobile network Vodacom from 2008 to 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Scarcella was also previously a brand group manager at South African Breweries (SAB) as well as the marketing director at M-Net and the marketing executive at Edcon Group.<\/p>\n<p>Telkom on Monday confirmed to Fin24 that Scarcella was leaving the telecoms company.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter almost three years at Telkom our chief marketing officer, Enzo Scarcella, has decided to leave Telkom to pursue a new career opportunity,\u201d Telkom\u2019s executive for external communications, Gugulethu Maqetuka, told Fin24 via an emailed statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen Enzo joined Telkom in 2014, Telkom\u2019s brand awareness and affinity were at a low point. Enzo drove a brand strategy with focus and creativity, delivering the updated Telkom brand and a succession of highly successful campaigns across our businesses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wish him all the best as he embarks on the next stage of his career,\u201d said the company.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unclear where Scarcella is headed to next.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fin24.com\/Tech\/Companies\/telkom-cmo-enzo-scarcella-quits-20160830\" target=\"_blank\">Fin24<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Telkom<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Telkom will pay you R1 million to catch network saboteurs\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/134615\/telkom-will-pay-you-r1-million-to-catch-network-saboteurs\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Telkom will pay you R1 million to catch network saboteurs<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Telkom threatens to sue Icasa over spectrum auction\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/133666\/telkom-threatens-to-sue-icasa-over-spectrum-auction\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Telkom threatens to sue Icasa over spectrum auction<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Telkom hit by business sabotage \u2013 offers R500,000 reward\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/133622\/telkom-hit-by-business-sabotage-offers-r500000-reward\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Telkom hit by business sabotage \u2013 offers R500,000 reward<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Telkom CEO\u2019s pay hits R14.5 million\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/131358\/telkom-ceos-pay-hits-r14-5-million\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Telkom CEO\u2019s pay hits R14.5 million<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telecoms veteran Enzo Scarcella is leaving his role as chief marketing officer at Telkom after spending three years at the company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":46120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-134949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-active"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134949","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\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134955,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134949\/revisions\/134955"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}