{"id":53414,"date":"2014-02-20T10:23:18","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T08:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=53414"},"modified":"2014-02-20T10:23:18","modified_gmt":"2014-02-20T08:23:18","slug":"symantec-appoints-new-sa-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/53414\/symantec-appoints-new-sa-lead\/","title":{"rendered":"Symantec appoints new SA lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anti-virus software group\u00a0Symantec announced it has appointed Nick Christodoulou as its new country manager in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Christodoulou\u00a0\u00a0will be responsible for growing Symantec\u2019s consumer, commercial and enterprise business, while strengthening cooperation with partners.<\/p>\n<p>He will report directly to regional director Gordon Love, who oversees Symantec\u2019s business across the vast region of Middle East, Turkey and Africa (META).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRaising the level of security awareness for users and educating businesses about how they can better manage critical information to ensure business continuity are top priorities,\u201d\u00a0\u00a0said Christodoulou.<\/p>\n<p>Christodoulou has in excess of 15 years experience working in IT where he has held various sales and marketing leadership positions covering South Africa and East Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to Symantec, he served as regional partner manager for EMC where he advanced the success of the company\u2019s key partners and cross-functional team.<\/p>\n<p>He also served as GM for AxizWorkgroup where he developed sales strategy for its respective enterprise solution vendors.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on\u00a0\u00a0cyber crime<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"1 million cyber crime victims in SA\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/48854\/1-million-cyber-crime-victims-in-sa\/\"><strong>1 million cyber crime victims in SA<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Smaller SA retailers warned over Dexter malware\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/48960\/smaller-sa-retailers-warned-over-dexter-malware\/\"><strong>Smaller SA retailers warned over Dexter malware<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anti-virus software group Symantec announced it has appointed Nick Christodoulou as its new country manager in South Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":48253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[25,6685,1049,581],"class_list":["post-53414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-it-services","tag-active","tag-axizworkgroup","tag-emc","tag-symantec"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53414","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=53414"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53417,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53414\/revisions\/53417"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}