{"id":52818,"date":"2014-02-06T17:30:02","date_gmt":"2014-02-06T15:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=52818"},"modified":"2014-02-06T17:30:02","modified_gmt":"2014-02-06T15:30:02","slug":"seacom-ceo-steps-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/52818\/seacom-ceo-steps-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Seacom CEO steps down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seacom has announced that CEO Mark Simpson has decided to leave the company to pursue personal interests.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMark has lead the business from a successful project finance initiative into a dynamic broadband subsea cable operator,\u201d Seacom said.<\/p>\n<p>Founder and original CEO of Seacom, Brian Herlihy, has agreed to assume the leadership role at at the undersea cable operator.<\/p>\n<p>Seacom said that given his role in establishing the company, Herlihy\u00a0knows the business well and is tasked with continuing the expansion of Seacom into Africa and beyond.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Seacom<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Pieter Uys joins Seacom board\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/49841\/pieter-uys-joins-seacom-board\/\"><strong>Pieter Uys joins Seacom board<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"SEACOM appoints CCO\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/21875\/seacom-appoints-cco\/\"><strong>SEACOM appoints CCO<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seacom has announced that CEO Mark Simpson has decided to leave the company to pursue personal interests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":34186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[1940,26,3027,39],"class_list":["post-52818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-telecommunications","tag-brian-herlihy","tag-headline","tag-mark-simpson","tag-seacom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52818","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=52818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52820,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52818\/revisions\/52820"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}