{"id":74946,"date":"2014-12-02T13:02:42","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T11:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=74946"},"modified":"2014-12-02T13:04:09","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T11:04:09","slug":"mtn-sa-appoints-new-enterprise-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/74946\/mtn-sa-appoints-new-enterprise-head\/","title":{"rendered":"MTN SA appoints new enterprise head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MTN South Africa has appointed a new chief enterprise officer, as Lambo Kanagaratnam leaves to pursue other interests outside of the business.<\/p>\n<p>The operator has appointed former Cisco SA Managing Director Alpheus Mangale in the role, effective from 1 December.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mangale is a seasoned ICT expert with over 18 years\u2019 experience in the ICT, enterprises, and public sector industries spanning Europe, Middle East, and the Africa region,&#8221; MTN said.<\/p>\n<p>He spent 15 years at Dimension Data where he led the group\u2019s overall technology strategy, marketing function, as well as all strategic business alliances for, among others, Microsoft, HP, and EMC.<\/p>\n<p>At Cisco he <span class=\"\">led all Cisco\u2019s engagements across private and public sector markets and was responsible for the company\u2019s overall country transformation strategy with service providers and government leaders.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are pleased to have someone of Mangale\u2019s calibre in our management team and we are confident that his wealth of expertise and global exposure will stand MTN Business in good stead,\u201d said MTN SA CEO Ahmed Farroukh.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on MTN<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Cell C CEO warns of Vodacom, MTN duopoly\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/74598\/cell-c-ceo-warns-of-vodacom-mtn-duopoly\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Cell C CEO warns of Vodacom, MTN duopoly<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to MTN video-on-demand launch update\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/74452\/mtn-video-on-demand-launch-update\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">MTN video-on-demand launch update<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to MTN the most valuable African brand\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/74160\/mtn-the-most-valuable-african-brand\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">MTN the most valuable African brand<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to MTN raises concern over Vodacom-Neotel deal\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/73446\/mtn-raises-concern-over-vodacom-neotel-deal\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">MTN raises concern over Vodacom-Neotel deal<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MTN South Africa has appointed a new chief enterprise officer, as former head Lambo Kanagaratnam leaves to pursue other interests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":74948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1959,26,6155,5954],"class_list":["post-74946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-alpheus-mangale","tag-headline","tag-lambo-kanagaratnam","tag-mtn-sa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74946","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=74946"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74956,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74946\/revisions\/74956"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}