{"id":46169,"date":"2013-09-18T12:17:51","date_gmt":"2013-09-18T10:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=46169"},"modified":"2013-09-18T12:19:28","modified_gmt":"2013-09-18T10:19:28","slug":"pinnacle-appoints-industry-veteran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/46169\/pinnacle-appoints-industry-veteran\/","title":{"rendered":"Pinnacle appoints industry veteran"},"content":{"rendered":"

JSE listed ICT equipment distributor,\u00a0Pinnacle Technology<\/a>\u00a0has announced the appointment of Henry Ferreira as head of distribution for the group, effective immediately.<\/p>\n

Ferreira, who has filled the role of CEO at AxizWorkgroup for the past 18 months, will take on the added\u00a0responsibility of managing distribution for the Pinnacle Group which includes both of its major ICT subsidiaries,\u00a0Pinnacle Africa and AxizWorkgroup.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile both companies operate very differently, in mostly varying markets and have very different cultures,\u00a0here are areas where collaboration between the teams will strengthen the Group even further,” said\u00a0Pinnacle CEO, Arnold Fourie.<\/p>\n

Fourie noted that both entities will remain separate, and will continue to function\u00a0separately in their specialist areas, but that great advantage could be gained from Ferreira overseeing both\u00a0businesses.<\/p>\n

Ferreira is an industry veteran, bringing over 30 years\u2019 experience in the ICT industry to the table. He is well\u00a0known in the South African market for his roles as country general manager for Hewlett Packard, South Africa and\u00a0MD of Compaq Africa.<\/p>\n

Prior to joining AxizWorkgroup as the CEO in February 2012, Ferreira held the position of country GM\u00a0for Lenovo, Africa, where he was responsible for managing and growing the Lenovo business whilst\u00a0maintaining and growing relationships with key enterprise customers and business partners.<\/p>\n

He has also held executive positions with Microsoft Southern Africa, Nokia Networks, Unisys Africa and Hewlett\u00a0Packard UK & Ireland.<\/p>\n

More news on Pinnacle<\/h3>\n

Pinnacle lifts dividend 17%<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Pinnacle in R237m Datacentrix acquisition<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Pinnacle makes double acquisition<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Pinnacle debut auction 50% oversubscibed<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Pinnacle Africa appoints enterprise director<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pinnacle Technology has announced the appointment of Henry Ferreira as head of distribution for the group, effective immediately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":46173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[25,6685,6687,6686,273,1388,169,6688,5501,315],"class_list":["post-46169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-it-services","tag-active","tag-axizworkgroup","tag-compaq","tag-henry-ferreira","tag-hewlett-packard","tag-lenovo","tag-microsoft","tag-nokia-networks","tag-pinnacle-holdings","tag-unisys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46169","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=46169"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46175,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46169\/revisions\/46175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}