{"id":143368,"date":"2016-11-16T09:42:21","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T07:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=143368"},"modified":"2016-11-16T09:42:21","modified_gmt":"2016-11-16T07:42:21","slug":"new-chief-technology-officer-for-mtn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/143368\/new-chief-technology-officer-for-mtn\/","title":{"rendered":"New chief technology officer for MTN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MTN South Africa has appointed Giovanni Chiarelli as its new chief technology and information officer.<\/p>\n<p>Chiarelli was previously the CTO\u00a0of Vodafone Romania.<\/p>\n<p>Chiarelli takes over from Babak Fouladi, who was the interim CTO in addition to his role as MTN group executive for technology and information systems.<\/p>\n<p>He\u00a0holds an electrical engineering degree from Politecnico di Milano and an MBA from University Luigi Bocconi.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs MTN SA\u2019s new CTIO, Chiarelli is expected to build on the network improvement milestones that have been achieved in the last 18 months and will be tasked with shaping and driving technology and information strategies for MTN SA,\u201d said the company.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI remain confident that the wealth of international experience that Chiarelli brings will enable our continued quest of building higher-performing networks, transforming customer experience, and leading the delivery of a bold, new digital world,\u201d said\u00a0Mteto Nyati, MTN SA CEO.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/138781\/mtn-rating-cut-to-junk\/\" target=\"_blank\">MTN rating cut to junk<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MTN South Africa has appointed Giovanni Chiarelli as its new chief technology and information officer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":96959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[25,28],"class_list":["post-143368","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\/143368","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143370,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143368\/revisions\/143370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}