{"id":17630,"date":"2012-07-12T10:21:21","date_gmt":"2012-07-12T08:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=17630"},"modified":"2012-07-12T10:53:58","modified_gmt":"2012-07-12T08:53:58","slug":"ibm-sa-announces-new-gm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/17630\/ibm-sa-announces-new-gm\/","title":{"rendered":"IBM SA announces new GM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Technology group IBM\u00a0has appointed Abraham Thomas as country general manager for IBM South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>He replaces Oliver Fortuin, who has stepped down form his position to set-up his own business.<\/p>\n<p>Abraham has undertaken a of senior executive roles at IBM including managing director of IBM India and IBM Global Services India, vice-president of general business in ASEAN\/South Asia, and director of financial services sector for IBM ASEAN\/South Asia.<\/p>\n<p>Most recently, Abraham served as\u00a0vice-president of systems and technology group, for IBM\u2019s Growth Markets Unit, based in Shanghai.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IBM has appointed Abraham Thomas as country general manager for its South African arm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":10142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[3517,25,753,3518,1107],"class_list":["post-17630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-it-services","tag-abraham-thomas","tag-active","tag-ibm","tag-oliver-fortuin","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17630","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=17630"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17632,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17630\/revisions\/17632"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}