{"id":292558,"date":"2019-01-08T11:12:26","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T09:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=292558"},"modified":"2019-01-08T11:12:26","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T09:12:26","slug":"andrew-openshaw-joins-huge-group-as-coo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/292558\/andrew-openshaw-joins-huge-group-as-coo\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Openshaw joins Huge Group as COO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andrew Openshaw has been appointed as chief operating officer and director of Huge Group with effect from 1 March 2019.<\/p>\n

It comes days after Zunaid Bulbulia resigned as a director of JSE-listed telecoms firm. Bulbulia also resigned as an employee of Huge, where he held the position of chief financial officer.<\/p>\n

Openshaw joins from listed group Reunert, where he has served as CEO of the communication cluster since 2016.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe successfully leveraged the ECN offerings through a wide base of channel partners including the Reunert-owned Nashua franchise channel, making it a significant contributor to Reunert.\u201d<\/p>\n

Openshaw holds a B Pharm degree from Rhodes University. He has also completed the Advanced Executive Programme at the Unisa School of Business Leadership.<\/p>\n

“The board welcomes Andy to the Huge Group and looks forward to a long and mutually beneficial relationship,” the company said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Huge said it has also identified a number of suitable candidates for the post of CFO, and has been engaging actively with one candidate.<\/p>\n

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Read: Huge Group CFO steps down<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Andrew Openshaw has been appointed as chief operating officer and director of Huge with effect from 1 March 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":244061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[26,24],"class_list":["post-292558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-telecommunications","tag-headline","tag-huge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292558","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=292558"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":292570,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292558\/revisions\/292570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}