{"id":67256,"date":"2014-09-01T12:08:57","date_gmt":"2014-09-01T10:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=67256"},"modified":"2014-09-01T12:08:57","modified_gmt":"2014-09-01T10:08:57","slug":"vodacom-appoints-new-chief-strategy-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/67256\/vodacom-appoints-new-chief-strategy-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"Vodacom appoints new chief strategy officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vodacom has appointed Yolanda Cuba as chief officer of strategy and business development, with effect from 1 November 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Neil Gough currently serves in the role of chief officer of strategy development at Vodacom.<\/p>\n<p>Cuba is an independent non-executive director at\u00a0 the mobile operator and will become a member of the Vodacom Group Executive Committee.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of this change,\u00a0Cuba&#8217;s status on the board reverts to that of a non-executive director with immediate effect. She will step down from the board with effect from 31<br \/>\nOctober 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Cuba is currently the executive director:\u00a0 strategy &amp; business support, at South African Breweries (SAB), a position she has held since February 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to joining SAB she was the Group CEO of Mvelaphanda Group, while she also also serves on a number of boards including Barclays Africa Group Limited.<\/p>\n<p>Cuba has a BCom (Statistics) and BCom Honours (Accounting) CA(SA).<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Vodacom<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Vodacom to spend R1 billion on Gauteng network\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/66170\/vodacom-to-spend-r1-billion-on-gauteng-network\/\"><strong>Vodacom to spend R1 billion on Gauteng network<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Vodacom targets 50 million Internet users\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/64952\/vodacom-wants-to-take-africa\/\"><strong>Vodacom targets 50 million Internet users<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Vodacom wants to sell stuff using hashtags on Twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/64111\/vodacom-wants-to-sell-stuff-using-hashtags-on-twitter\/\"><strong>Vodacom wants to sell stuff using hashtags on Twitter<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vodacom has appointed Yolanda Cuba, as chief officer: strategy &#038; business development with effect from 1 November 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":49246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[7441,26,3116,6699,27],"class_list":["post-67256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-telecommunications","tag-barclays-africa","tag-headline","tag-mvelaphanda-group","tag-sab","tag-vodacom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67256","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=67256"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67262,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67256\/revisions\/67262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}