{"id":50412,"date":"2013-12-03T09:24:10","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T07:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=50412"},"modified":"2013-12-03T09:31:26","modified_gmt":"2013-12-03T07:31:26","slug":"datatec-appoints-new-westcon-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/50412\/datatec-appoints-new-westcon-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"Datatec appoints new Westcon CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ICT firm, Datatec has appointed former Dell and Brambles executive, Dolph Westerbos as new chief executive for the Westcon Group, effective from 1 January 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Westcon Group is Datatec&#8217;s global distribution of advanced networking, security and unified communications solutions division.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, Westerbos helped set up Dell&#8217;s channel business in Europe, managing the company&#8217;s relationships with its value added resellers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dolph brings a considerable international track record, so we are delighted that he is joining us to run Westcon,&#8221; said Datatec CEO, Jens Montanana.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;His experience in global supply chain operations coupled with technology based services and his focus on operational efficiency and international commerce will be invaluable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Westerbos will take over from Dean Douglas who is leaving Datatec to take up another role, after a handover in January.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Datatec<\/h3>\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<p><a title=\"Datatec buys ICT firm Comztek\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/27653\/datatec-snags-ict-firm-comztek\/\"><strong>Datatec buys ICT firm Comztek<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Datatec subsidiary in South American acquisition\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/26140\/datatec-subsidiary-in-south-american-acquisition\/\"><strong>Datatec subsidiary in South American acquisition<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Datatec\u2019s earnings slip on weaker Westcon\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/37847\/datatecs-earnings-slip-on-weaker-westcon\/\">Datatec\u2019s earnings slip on weaker Westcon<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Datatec has appointed a new chief executive for the Westcon Group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":37861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[25,765,7116,769],"class_list":["post-50412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-it-services","tag-active","tag-datatec","tag-dolph-westerbos","tag-westcon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50412","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=50412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50413,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50412\/revisions\/50413"}],"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=50412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}