{"id":40728,"date":"2013-06-26T15:19:50","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T13:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=40728"},"modified":"2013-06-27T09:54:04","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T07:54:04","slug":"executive-shake-up-at-mtn-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/40728\/executive-shake-up-at-mtn-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Executive shake-up at MTN Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Current <a title=\"MTN\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/1640-MTN-Group\">MTN<\/a> chief technical officer <a title=\"Lambo Kanagaratnam\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/2683-Kanagaratnam-Lambotharan\">Lambo Kanagaratnam<\/a> is set to be promoted to chief enterprise business officer, heading up the group&#8217;s\u00a0enterprise business division to promote ICT convergence.<\/p>\n<p>Kanagaratnam takes over from\u00a0<a title=\"Zunaid Bulbulia\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/6168-Zunaid-Bulbulia\">Zunaid Bulbulia<\/a>, who was\u00a0recently appointed CEO of MTN&#8217;s\u00a0South African operations, and is a former chief financial officer of MTN.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Eben Albertyn\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/9080-Eben-Albertyn\">Eben Albertyn<\/a> takes over from\u00a0Kanagaratnam, from his position as\u00a0Airtel Africa chief technology officer, having previously worked at MTN as a CTO for its operations in\u00a0Cameroon and Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>Kanagaratnam, who boasts a Master of Science (MSc) Engineering degree at the\u00a0University of the Witwatersrand, was previously\u00a0chief technical officer at MTN Irancell,\u00a0and also GM of MTN Group Technology .<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on MTN<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"MTN SA gets new CEO\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/38926\/mtn-sa-gets-new-ceo\/\">MTN SA gets new CEO<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Phuthuma Nhleko rejoins MTN\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/38822\/phuthuma-nhleko-rejoins-mtn\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Phuthuma Nhleko rejoins MTN<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"MTN hit with Fitch downgrade\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/39390\/mtn-hit-with-fitch-downgrade\/\"><strong>MTN hit with Fitch downgrade<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Investor confidence hurting MTN: analyst\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/39535\/investor-confidence-hurting-mtn-analyst\/\"><strong>Investor confidence hurting MTN: analyst<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Current MTN CTO Lambo Kanagaratnam is set to be promoted to chief enterprise business officer of the group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":40730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[6157,6156,26,6155,28,3588],"class_list":["post-40728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-airtel-africa","tag-eben-albertyn","tag-headline","tag-lambo-kanagaratnam","tag-mtn","tag-zunaid-bulbulia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40728","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=40728"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40732,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40728\/revisions\/40732"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}