{"id":352989,"date":"2019-11-11T13:22:53","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T11:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=352989"},"modified":"2019-11-11T13:22:53","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T11:22:53","slug":"altron-appoints-chief-information-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/enterprise\/352989\/altron-appoints-chief-information-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"Altron appoints chief information officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JSE-listed technology company Altron has announced the appointment of Collin Govender to the position of group chief information officer (CIO) with immediate effect.<\/p>\n<p>Govender, who has been Altron\u2019s executive for shared services, will provide functional guidance to the chief information officers in Altron Group\u2019s ten subsidiaries in his new role.<\/p>\n<p>He joined Altron from T-Systems in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Altron chief executive, Mteto Nyati, said: \u2018This appointment comes at a critical time for Altron. We have embarked on a streamline of our information systems and are introducing integrated ERP, CRM, and HR systems across the Group.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Collin\u2019s immediate priority will be on developing an information technology strategy and its governance structures with a special focus on Group standards and information security.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/cloud-hosting\/345066\/altron-wins-microsoft-licensing-solution-provider-contract\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Altron wins Microsoft licensing solution provider contract<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JSE-listed technology company Altron has announced the appointment of Collin Govender to the position of group chief information officer (CIO) with immediate effect.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":352995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13700],"tags":[309,26],"class_list":["post-352989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-enterprise","tag-altron","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352989","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=352989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":352997,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352989\/revisions\/352997"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}