{"id":59463,"date":"2014-06-02T16:25:24","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T14:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=59463"},"modified":"2014-06-02T16:25:24","modified_gmt":"2014-06-02T14:25:24","slug":"takealot-com-appoints-joint-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/59463\/takealot-com-appoints-joint-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"Takealot.com appoints joint CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Willem van Biljon has joined online retailer, Takealot.com, as co-CEO and chief technology officer.<\/p>\n<p>A technology entrepreneur, Van Biljon co-founded Mosaic Software, the creators of the Postilion payment system, and was one of the leaders who built Amazon\u2019s EC2 cloud service and Nimbula.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on van Biljon\u2019s appointment, CEO Kim Reid said: \u201cWe are thrilled to have someone of Willem\u2019s stature, a takealot.com board member since August 2011, join us in an executive capacity in our Cape Town head office.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He has a world-class technical background paired with serious business acumen making him ideal to join our team and contribute to taking takealot.com from a challenger brand to SA market leader in online retail.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Takealot.com recently announced an investment of US$100 million led by Tiger Global Management for continued expansion in South Africa and sub-Saharan Africa.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Takealot.com<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Takealot: we will be the biggest e-commerce site in SA\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/58933\/takealot-we-will-be-the-biggest-e-commerce-site-in-sa\/\"><strong>Takealot: we will be the biggest e-commerce site in SA<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Takealot raises $100 million in funding\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/58589\/takealot-raises-100-million-in-funding\/\"><strong>Takealot raises $100 million in funding<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #263034;\"><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" title=\"Takealot launches daily deals section\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/77886-takealot-launches-daily-deals-section.html\"><strong>Takealot launches daily deals section<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #263034;\"><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" title=\"Takealot loses import service\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/60457-takealot-loses-import-service.html\"><strong>Takealot loses import service<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Willem van Biljon has joined online retailer, Takealot.com, as co-CEO and chief technology officer.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":59133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9882],"tags":[25,8077,3113,4534],"class_list":["post-59463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-mosaic-software","tag-takealot-com","tag-tiger-global-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59463","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=59463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59465,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59463\/revisions\/59465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}