{"id":211272,"date":"2017-11-16T16:19:49","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T14:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=211272"},"modified":"2017-11-16T16:19:49","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T14:19:49","slug":"bcx-appoints-new-chief-digital-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/211272\/bcx-appoints-new-chief-digital-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"BCX appoints new chief digital officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BCX has appointed Rapelang Rabana as its new chief digital officer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rabana will fill a pivotal role for the South African technology company as it seeks to further enable disruptive, innovative technology,&#8221; the company said in a statement on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As Chief Digital Officer, Rapelang will be responsible for driving innovation at BCX, and will play an integral role in developing the digital strategies for key customers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She will also be tasked with developing new innovations and businesses and bringing them to scale,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>Rabana&#8217;s previous roles include being the founder and CEO of learning technology company Rekindle Learning, and serving as an executive director of Nisela Capital &#8211; a Sub Saharan African advisory, asset management and private equity firm,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are excited that Rapelang is joining us,\u201d said Ian Russell, CEO of BCX.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRabana is a true maverick and disruptor. She has done truly amazing work to advance technology in this country, and I know she will do the same for BCX.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She will officially join BCX on 1 December 2017.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/209149\/bcx-launches-a-free-online-learning-platform\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BCX launches a free online learning platform<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BCX has appointed Rapelang Rabana as Chief Digital Officer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":174895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9882],"tags":[4445],"class_list":["post-211272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-bcx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211272","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=211272"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211283,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211272\/revisions\/211283"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}