{"id":283742,"date":"2018-11-13T09:37:14","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T07:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=283742"},"modified":"2018-11-13T09:37:14","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T07:37:14","slug":"vodacom-appoints-new-iot-managing-executive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/cloud-hosting\/283742\/vodacom-appoints-new-iot-managing-executive\/","title":{"rendered":"Vodacom appoints new IoT managing executive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Vodacom Group has appointed Peter Malebye as managing executive for Internet of Things (IoT) Africa Vodacom Group Business.<\/p>\n<p>Malebye will replace Deon Liebenberg &#8211; who left Vodacom in May &#8211; and will report to Vodacom Group Business chief enterprise officer, William Mzimba.<\/p>\n<p>Malebye will be responsible for driving thought leadership, strategic direction, business development and the sustained growth of Vodacom\u2019s IoT business across the continent.<\/p>\n<p>Having qualified as an electrical engineer in 1998, Malebye began his career in telecommunications at Alcatel in 1999.<\/p>\n<p>He also holds a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering and GDE (Industrial Engineering from Wits University).<\/p>\n<p>Malebye previously held the position of managing executive responsible for Industrial\/Commercial IoT and Operational Technology commercialisation at BCX.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/283546\/vodacom-shares-fall-the-most-in-almost-8-months-on-consumer-concerns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vodacom shares fall the most in almost 8 months on consumer concerns<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vodacom Group has appointed Peter Malebye as managing executive for Internet of Things (IoT) Africa Vodacom Group Business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":283744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[26,27],"class_list":["post-283742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud-hosting","tag-headline","tag-vodacom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283742","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=283742"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283750,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283742\/revisions\/283750"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}