{"id":254373,"date":"2018-06-26T16:33:02","date_gmt":"2018-06-26T14:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=254373"},"modified":"2018-06-26T16:33:02","modified_gmt":"2018-06-26T14:33:02","slug":"ford-names-new-md-for-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/motoring\/254373\/ford-names-new-md-for-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Ford names new MD for South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ford Motor Company has announced that Neale Hill will take on the role of managing director of South Africa and Sub Saharan Africa, effective 1 July.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dr. Casper Kruger, a seasoned automotive professional with over 20 years&#8217; experience in the market, has decided to leave and take on a new personal endeavor,&#8221; the group said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Hill, currently director of marketing, sales &amp; service, has worked across various functions including sales, marketing and at general management level. Hill will report to Mark Ovenden, president, Ford Middle East &amp; Africa.<\/p>\n<p>In his new role, Hill will be responsible for growth in the company operations across the region as Ford South Africa continues to grow its customer-centric product offerings, improving operational fitness and further develop its customer base.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/motoring\/247005\/ford-wants-to-help-you-find-a-parking-space-quicker-with-new-tech\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ford wants to help you find a parking space quicker with new tech<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ford Motor Company has announced that Neale Hill will take on the role of managing director of South Africa and Sub Saharan Africa, effective 1 July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":208789,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11119],"tags":[2042,26],"class_list":["post-254373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-motoring","tag-ford","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254373","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=254373"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254379,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254373\/revisions\/254379"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}