{"id":340233,"date":"2019-09-11T13:23:44","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T11:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=340233"},"modified":"2019-09-11T13:23:44","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T11:23:44","slug":"cisco-appoints-new-country-manager-for-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/340233\/cisco-appoints-new-country-manager-for-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Cisco appoints new country manager for South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"

Global technology company Cisco has appointed Garsen Naidu as country manager for South Africa.<\/p>\n

Naidu has been with the company for eight years, his most recent position being head of the partner and system engineering organisations for Sub-Saharan Africa.<\/p>\n

“Garsen has led our Partner and System Engineering division for two years now, with a sales team that is focused on unearthing partnerships that enhance the digital transformation journeys of Cisco customers,” said Clayton Naidoo, GM: Sub-Saharan Africa at Cisco.<\/p>\n

He started out as a software development engineer in the aerospace industry, joining Cisco in 2011 as an account manager.<\/p>\n

He was later appointed as client executive in 2012 and then promoted to regional sales manager for the public sector and enterprise solutions in 2014.<\/p>\n

Naidu holds an MBA from the Gordon Institute of Business Science and has a BSc in Engineering \u2013 Electrical \u2013 Information Systems and a diploma in Electrical Engineering.<\/p>\n

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Global technology company Cisco has appointed Garsen Naidu as country manager for South Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":340239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872],"tags":[1358],"class_list":["post-340233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-cisco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340233","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=340233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":340241,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340233\/revisions\/340241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}