{"id":46958,"date":"2013-10-01T15:38:32","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T13:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=46958"},"modified":"2013-10-01T15:40:26","modified_gmt":"2013-10-01T13:40:26","slug":"blue-label-finance-head-steps-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/46958\/blue-label-finance-head-steps-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Label finance head steps down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blue Label Telecoms has announced that its financial\u00a0director, David Rivkind, has resigned, with\u00a0effect from 14 November 2013, being the date on which\u00a0his employment contract expires.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;David decided to resign to enable him to pursue other opportunities. David has made an<br \/>\noutstanding contribution to Blue Label and its stakeholders,&#8221; Blue Label said in a statement on Tuesday (31 September).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The board both respects and appreciates the unwavering commitment and skill which David has invested and demonstrated in\u00a0the performance of his duties.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The group said that\u00a0Dean Suntup, the financial director of Blue Label&#8217;s\u00a0prepaid airtime card distribution business &#8211;\u00a0The Prepaid Company &#8211; since 2005, &#8220;has\u00a0always been earmarked as David\u00b4s successor to assume the position of financial director of the\u00a0group&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The board has every confidence that Dean will step into David\u00b4s shoes and will acquit<br \/>\nhimself with the same distinction and competence as David has done,&#8221; Blue Label said.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Blue Label<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Blue Label takes PoS to township SMEs\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/banking\/45211\/blue-label-takes-pos-to-township-smes\/\"><strong>Blue Label takes PoS to township SMEs<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Blue Label reports profit slide\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/32009\/blue-label-reports-profit-decline\/\"><strong>Blue Label reports profit slide<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Mexico losses weigh on Blue Label\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/44454\/mexico-losses-weigh-on-blue-label\/\"><strong>Mexico losses weigh on Blue Label<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Blue Label hits back at Telkom claims\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/40031\/blue-label-hits-back-at-telkom-claims\/\"><strong>Blue Label hits back at Telkom claims<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeffBlue Label Telecoms has announced that its financial director, David Rivkind, has resigned, with effect from 14 November 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":5652,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[25,1382,6765],"class_list":["post-46958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-telecommunications","tag-active","tag-blue-label-telecoms","tag-david-rivkind"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46958","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=46958"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46961,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46958\/revisions\/46961"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}