{"id":196534,"date":"2017-09-05T08:19:55","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T06:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=196534"},"modified":"2017-09-05T08:19:55","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T06:19:55","slug":"brian-armstrong-appointed-to-the-board-at-huge-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/196534\/brian-armstrong-appointed-to-the-board-at-huge-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Armstrong appointed to the board at Huge Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Telkom chief commercial officer Brian Armstrong has joined Huge Group as a non-executive director.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDr Armstrong has more than 30 years of top level management experience in telecommunications, IT, technology research, and development and systems engineering,\u201d said the company.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is widely regarded as a thought leader in digitalisation, convergence, and business strategy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The move to Huge Group follows Armstrong\u2019s recent appointment as professor in the Chair of Digital Business at Wits Business School.<\/p>\n<p>Before joining Wits in July 2017, he served as group chief operating officer and group chief commercial officer at Telkom.<\/p>\n<p>Armstrong completed his BSc (Eng) and MSc (Eng) at the University of the Witwatersrand in 1982 and 1984 respectively, and obtained his PhD from University College London in 1992.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/193834\/brian-armstrong-joins-wits-business-school-as-chair-in-digital-business\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brian Armstrong joins Wits Business School as chair in digital business<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Telkom chief commercial officer Brian Armstrong has joined Huge Group as a non-executive director.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":193840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-telecommunications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196534","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=196534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196542,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196534\/revisions\/196542"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}