{"id":66756,"date":"2014-08-26T13:10:38","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T11:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=66756"},"modified":"2014-08-26T14:33:41","modified_gmt":"2014-08-26T12:33:41","slug":"telkom-appoints-new-communications-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/66756\/telkom-appoints-new-communications-head\/","title":{"rendered":"Telkom appoints new communications head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Telkom has announced the appointment of Jacqui O\u2019Sullivan as managing executive: group communication and PR.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Sullivan will join the telco on 15 September 2014 from Sasol, where she was the VP: group corporate branding and communication.<\/p>\n<p>She also fulfilled an executive communication role at Motorola for the Middle East and Africa and was the head of communication and corporate social investment at South African Airways (SAA).<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Sullivan started her career as a journalist at the Sunday Independent and Saturday Star.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJacqui\u2019s previous experience and track record in communications makes her a clear fit for Telkom as we move to reposition ourselves as the country\u2019s leading ICT provider,\u201d said Telkom chief marketing officer Enzo Scarcella.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe will be instrumental in guiding how we communicate with key stakeholders and customers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Sullivan holds a BA in English and Politics from the University of Stellenbosch.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Telkom<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Schindeh\u00fctte resigns from Telkom board\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/65366\/schindehutte-resigns-from-telkom-board\/\"><strong>Schindeh\u00fctte resigns from Telkom board<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Telkom reshuffles its exco\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/64099\/telkom-reshuffles-its-exco\/\"><strong>Telkom reshuffles its exco<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telkom has announced the appointment of Jacqui O\u2019Sullivan as managing executive: group communication and PR. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":50234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[26,295,1675,2240,65],"class_list":["post-66756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-telecommunications","tag-headline","tag-motorola","tag-saa","tag-sasol","tag-telkom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66756","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=66756"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66760,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66756\/revisions\/66760"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}