{"id":3019,"date":"2012-01-17T18:56:53","date_gmt":"2012-01-17T18:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=3019"},"modified":"2012-01-17T19:01:59","modified_gmt":"2012-01-17T19:01:59","slug":"alan-knott-craig-denies-cell-c-ceo-rumours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/3019\/alan-knott-craig-denies-cell-c-ceo-rumours\/","title":{"rendered":"Alan Knott-Craig denies Cell C CEO rumours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Vodacom CEO Alan Knott-Craig has denied that he has reached an agreement with Cell C to take over as CEO at the company.<\/p>\n<p>Late last year (2011) news emerged that former Vodacom CEO Alan Knott-Craig was in discussions with Cell C which could see him head up the company.<\/p>\n<p>At the time Knott-Craig confirmed that he was in tentative talks with Cell C, but he was quick to point out that he had not signed a contract with any company.<\/p>\n<p>Speculation about Knott-Craig heading up Cell C has once again flared up with sources saying that he will take over as long as there is adequate funding to execute his plans.<\/p>\n<p>Knott-Craig told MyBroadband via his spokesperson Kevin Schmidt that these rumours are untrue, and that nothing has changed since the news reports surfaced last year.<\/p>\n<p>According to Schmidt, Knott-Craig said that he was perplexed by the speculation and added that he does not know why these rumours started.<\/p>\n<p>Industry sources however maintain that it is likely that Knott-Craig will take over at the helm as Cell C CEO, replacing acting CEO Simon Duffy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Vodacom CEO Alan Knott-Craig debunks rumours that he has reached an agreement to become Cell C CEO<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3023,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[43,42,26,27],"class_list":["post-3019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-alan-knott-craig","tag-cell-c","tag-headline","tag-vodacom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3019","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3019"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3029,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3019\/revisions\/3029"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}