{"id":58023,"date":"2014-05-19T17:00:18","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T15:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=58023"},"modified":"2014-05-19T17:00:18","modified_gmt":"2014-05-19T15:00:18","slug":"pinnacle-appoints-new-executive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/58023\/pinnacle-appoints-new-executive\/","title":{"rendered":"Pinnacle appoints new executive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Under fire technology group, Pinnacle, has appointed an additional executive director, Henry Ferreira to serve on the Board.<\/p>\n<p>The industry veteran will also assist in managing the future growth of Pinnacle, with his appointment effective 1 June 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Ferreira has held the role of CEO of Axiz, trading as AxizWorkgroup a major subsidiary within the Pinnacle Group, for the last two years.<\/p>\n<p>He has been appointed to the position of executive director: Head of Distribution for Pinnacle Group.<\/p>\n<p>Ferreira has previously served as country GM for Hewlett Packard South Africa, and MD of Compaq Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to joining AxizWorkgroup as the CEO in February 2012, Ferreira held the position of<br \/>\ncountry GM for Lenovo Africa, where he was responsible for managing and<br \/>\ngrowing the Lenovo business whilst maintaining and growing relationships with key enterprise customers and business partners.<\/p>\n<p>He has also held Executive positions with Microsoft Southern Africa, Nokia Networks, Unisys Africa and Hewlett Packard UK &amp; Ireland.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Pinnacle<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Time to buy Pinnacle shares?\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/57197\/time-to-buy-pinnacle-shares\/\"><strong>Time to buy Pinnacle shares?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Pinnacle insider trading probe\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/56471\/pinnacle-insider-trading-probe\/\"><strong>Pinnacle insider trading probe<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Pinnacle bribery scandal digs deeper: report\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/56407\/pinnacle-bribery-scandal-digs-deeper-report\/\"><strong>Pinnacle bribery scandal digs deeper: report<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to More share dumping at Pinnacle\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/54957\/more-share-dumping-at-pinnacle\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">More share dumping at Pinnacle<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Pinnacle CEO denies insider trading\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/54901\/pinnacle-ceo-denies-insider-trading\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Pinnacle CEO denies insider trading<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under fire technology group, Pinnacle, has appointed an additional executive director, Henry Ferreira to serve on the Board. The industry veteran will also assist in managing the future growth of Pinnacle, with his appointment effective 1 June 2014. Ferreira has held the role of CEO of Axiz, trading as AxizWorkgroup a major subsidiary within the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":4529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,6685,6687,273,1388,169,4060,315],"class_list":["post-58023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-active","tag-axizworkgroup","tag-compaq","tag-hewlett-packard","tag-lenovo","tag-microsoft","tag-pinnacle","tag-unisys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58023","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58025,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58023\/revisions\/58025"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}