{"id":60331,"date":"2014-06-12T15:45:31","date_gmt":"2014-06-12T13:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=60331"},"modified":"2014-06-12T15:47:31","modified_gmt":"2014-06-12T13:47:31","slug":"business-connexion-appoints-acting-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/60331\/business-connexion-appoints-acting-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Connexion appoints acting CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Listed ICT group, Business Connexion Group (BCX) has appointed Vanessa Olver, currently deputy CEO, as acting CEO of the group following the death of Leetile Benjamin Mophatlane.<\/p>\n<p>The former chief executive officer, Mophatlane, passed away following a cardiac arrest on Wednesday 11, June 2014.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Business Connexion Group board of directors met this morning, in light of the passing of the CEO, and has decided to appoint Vanessa Olver, currently the Deputy CEO, as acting CEO of BCX,&#8221; the group said in a brief statement on SENS.<\/p>\n<p>In May, Telkom said it has entered into an agreement to acquire BCX in a R2.7 billion cash offer funded from its own cash resources.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Business Connexion<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Business Connexion CEO passes away\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/60255\/business-connexion-ceo-passes-away\/\"><strong>Business Connexion CEO passes away<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Telkom target BCX buys into Nigerian firm\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/60111\/telkom-target-bcx-buys-into-nigerian-firm\/\"><strong>Telkom target BCX buys into Nigerian firm<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Telkom to acquire Business Connexion\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/58285\/telkom-to-acquire-business-connexion\/\"><strong>Telkom to acquire Business Connexion<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"MTN in Business Connexion partnership\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/56543\/mtn-in-business-connexion-partnership\/\"><strong>MTN in Business Connexion partnership<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Business Connexion expects lower earnings\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/55556\/business-connexion-expects-lower-earnings\/\"><strong>Business Connexion expects lower earnings<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BCX has appointed Vanessa Olver, currently deputy CEO, as acting CEO of the group following the death of Leetile Benjamin Mophatlane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":53869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[4445,26,65],"class_list":["post-60331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-it-services","tag-bcx","tag-headline","tag-telkom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60331","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=60331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60333,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60331\/revisions\/60333"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}