{"id":49456,"date":"2013-11-14T10:34:38","date_gmt":"2013-11-14T08:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=49456"},"modified":"2013-11-14T10:40:20","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T08:40:20","slug":"logicalis-appoints-former-logica-and-bt-executive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/49456\/logicalis-appoints-former-logica-and-bt-executive\/","title":{"rendered":"Logicalis appoints former Logica and BT executive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Datatec, the international ICT group, has appointed Gary Bullard as chief executive of Logicalis Group, its IT solutions and managed services division, with effect from 1\u00a0March 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Bullard\u00a0will succeed Ian Cook who is retiring as CEO, but who will become non-executive chairman.<\/p>\n<p>Bullard\u00a0has substantial international experience in the IT and telecoms industry spanning more than\u00a025 years.<\/p>\n<p>In his most recent role he was UK CEO and President of Australia, Middle East and Asia for Logica, now part of CGI, the Canadian based global IT services company.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to this, he\u00a0was MD of BT PLC&#8217;s corporate business unit and President, BT Global Services.<\/p>\n<p>Bullard also served in\u00a0senior executive positions in IBM including GM, IBM Global\u00a0Services EMEA and GM, IBM Global Solutions, a $12 billion unit based out of New York.<\/p>\n<p>Jens Montanana, Datatec&#8217;s chief executive said:\u00a0&#8220;I am delighted that someone of Gary\u00b4s calibre and international industry experience\u00a0is joining us to lead Logicalis which has become a significant global business with\u00a0revenues of over $1.5 billion and profits in the first half of FY2014 up 45% to some $33\u00a0million.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Datatec and Logicalis<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Datatec interim profit slides\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/47693\/datatec-interim-profit-slides\/\"><strong>Datatec interim profit slides<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Datatec subsidiary buys iConsult\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/47607\/datatec-subsidiary-buys-iconsult\/\"><strong>Datatec subsidiary buys iConsult<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Datatec maintains full-year forecasts\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/42114\/datatec-maintains-full-year-forecasts\/\"><strong>Datatec maintains full-year forecasts<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Datatec completes Comztek acquisition\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/39212\/datatec-completes-comztek-acquisition\/\"><strong>Datatec completes Comztek acquisition<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Datatec has appointed Gary Bullard as chief executive of Logicalis Group, its IT solutions and managed services division, with effect from 1 March 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":37861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,765,753,2606,771],"class_list":["post-49456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-active","tag-datatec","tag-ibm","tag-jens-montanana","tag-logicalis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49456","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=49456"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49468,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49456\/revisions\/49468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}