{"id":50349,"date":"2013-12-02T12:12:35","date_gmt":"2013-12-02T10:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=50349"},"modified":"2013-12-02T12:23:51","modified_gmt":"2013-12-02T10:23:51","slug":"pinnacle-africa-appoints-new-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/50349\/pinnacle-africa-appoints-new-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"Pinnacle Africa appoints new CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Tarsus CEO, Pierre Spies has joined Pinnacle Africa as its new CEO, the company announced on Monday (2 December 2013).<\/p>\n<p>Spies will take up the role from current CEO, Louis Fourie in June 2014, and will report directly to Pinnacle Group head of distribution, Henry Ferreira.<\/p>\n<p>Fourie will be moving into the role of Group Operations Director, while Pinnacle Africa MD, Tim Humphreys-Davies will remain in the position he was appointed to in May this year, the group said.<\/p>\n<p>Spies is currently a consultant to MB Technologies on a one-year contract following his resignation as Tarsus CEO in May this year.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Tarsus<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Tarsus CEO steps down\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/38189\/tarsus-ceo-steps-down\/\"><strong>Tarsus CEO steps down<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Pinnacle sees further earnings rise\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/30334\/pinnacle-sees-further-earnings-rise\/\"><strong>Pinnacle sees further earnings rise<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Pinnacle Technology dividend up 52%\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/21628\/pinnacle-technology-dividend-up-52\/\"><strong>Pinnacle Technology dividend up 52%<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Tarsus boosted by RIM partnership\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/25230\/tarsus-boosted-by-rim-partnership\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Tarsus boosted by RIM partnership<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Tarsus CEO, Pierre Spies has joined Pinnacle Africa as its new CEO, the company announced on Monday (2 December 2013).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":34736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[25,3791,5500],"class_list":["post-50349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-it-services","tag-active","tag-pierre-spies","tag-pinnacle-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50349","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=50349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50350,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50349\/revisions\/50350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}