{"id":408795,"date":"2020-06-18T13:24:54","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T11:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=408795"},"modified":"2020-06-18T13:24:54","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T11:24:54","slug":"liquid-telecom-sa-ceo-reshaad-sha-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/broadband\/408795\/liquid-telecom-sa-ceo-reshaad-sha-resigns\/","title":{"rendered":"Liquid Telecom SA CEO Reshaad Sha resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reshaad Sha has resigned as Liquid Telecom South Africa CEO to head up a new artificial intelligence venture.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business-telecoms\/255345-reshaad-sha-is-new-liquid-telecom-south-africa-ceo.html\"><strong>Sha was appointed as the CEO of Liquid Telecom South Africa<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0on 1 June 2018, where he was responsible for the company\u2019s turnaround plan.<\/p>\n<p>During his tenure as CEO, Sha also oversaw the successful growth of digital services and the rollout of enhanced network services for enterprises and consumers across the country.<\/p>\n<p>After the successful turnaround of Liquid Telecom South Africa, Sha said he is now ready for his new venture in the artificial intelligence space.<\/p>\n<p>Sha told MyBroadband he will now run BriteGaze, which is set to launch on 10 October 2020.<\/p>\n<p>BriteGaze is a fund that will be used to grow businesses that are committed to building capability around artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>He will use his expertise in the telecommunications sector to focus his target companies on solving complex challenges that the industry faces in optimising and growing their businesses.<\/p>\n<p>BriteGaze has partnered with businesses that bring unique value creation solutions to market.<\/p>\n<p>In each of the respective fields of artificial intelligence, digital payment solutions, and the internet of things, BriteGaze will be addressing multiple solution facets.<\/p>\n<p>Sha\u2019s extensive experience in the ICT field will stand him in good stead in this new entrepreneurial venture.<\/p>\n<p>Before joining Liquid Telecom, Sha served as CEO of IoT network operator SqwidNet and chief strategy officer and executive director of Dark Fibre Africa.<\/p>\n<p>He has also worked for various global technology and telecoms companies, including Cisco and LogicaCMG.<\/p>\n<p><em>This article originally appeared on MyBroadband. You can read it <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business-telecoms\/356511-liquid-telecom-sa-ceo-reshaad-sha-resigns-here-are-his-plans.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/405331\/webafrica-appoints-new-ceo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Webafrica appoints new CEO<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reshaad Sha has resigned as Liquid Telecom South Africa CEO to head up a new artificial intelligence venture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":205854,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5553],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-408795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadband","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408795","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":408797,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408795\/revisions\/408797"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}