{"id":18069,"date":"2012-07-18T10:40:57","date_gmt":"2012-07-18T08:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=18069"},"modified":"2012-07-18T10:42:31","modified_gmt":"2012-07-18T08:42:31","slug":"new-appointment-as-mtn-sa-eyes-ict-convergence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/18069\/new-appointment-as-mtn-sa-eyes-ict-convergence\/","title":{"rendered":"New appointment as MTN SA eyes ICT convergence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MTN SA has announced the appointment of Zunaid Bulbulia, the company\u2019s chief financial officer since 2005, to the position of acting chief enterprise business officer with immediate effect.<\/p>\n<p>According to MTN SA, Bulbulia\u00a0is taking the helm of a new business unit that will see ICT convergence become a reality for enterprise customers across South Africa.\u00a0Bulbulia\u00a0will continue to manage our company finances and, effectively, will have a dual role, the group said.<\/p>\n<p>Angela Gahagan-Thompson, managing director of MTN Business, has left the group to pursue business interests outside of the company. Gahagan\u2013Thomson joined MTN SA in 2010 as executive MTN Business, where she was responsible for pursuing strategic business development opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;MTN South Africa strives to continually keep abreast of advancements in its approach on ICT convergence while maintaining alignment to MTN Group to ensure that the solutions it provides enhance customer experience.<\/p>\n<p>This advancement is guided by a number of factors such as our continued drive to maintain a competitive edge and unremitting pursuit of operational excellence.<\/p>\n<p>To sustain our momentum with operational challenges in an increasingly competitive environment, MTN SA has reviewed its operating structures with a view to improving organisational effectiveness.<\/p>\n<p>As a member of MTN EXCO,\u00a0Gahagan-Thompson\u00a0contributed to the development of the MTN Business. &#8220;MTN wishes her well in her business pursuits.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>More on the MTN\/Turkcell saga<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/17682\/da-wades-into-mtn-saga\/\"><strong>DA wades into MTN saga<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/17649\/mtn-linked-ambassador-suspended\/\">MTN-linked ambassador suspended<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/17459\/sa-ambassador-to-be-probed-over-mtn\/\"><strong>SA Ambassador to be probed over MTN<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/16995\/mtn-moves-to-have-turkcell-claims-dismissed\/\"><strong>MTN moves to have Turkcell claims dismissed<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MTN SA has announced a new a business unit that will see the group make a play in ICT convergence space for enterprise customers in South Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":18076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[25,3589,3590,28,3588],"class_list":["post-18069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-active","tag-angela-gahagan-thompson","tag-ict-convergence","tag-mtn","tag-zunaid-bulbulia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18069","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=18069"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18078,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18069\/revisions\/18078"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}