{"id":7849,"date":"2012-03-15T13:05:49","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T11:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=7849"},"modified":"2012-03-15T13:08:04","modified_gmt":"2012-03-15T11:08:04","slug":"andy-baker-joins-g4s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/7849\/andy-baker-joins-g4s\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Baker joins G4S"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former <a title=\"Company Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/313921-Nashua-Mobile\" target=\"_blank\">Nashua Mobile<\/a> CEO, <a title=\"Person Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/333972-Andy-Baker\" target=\"_blank\">Andy Baker<\/a>, has been appointed as the regional president for Africa for global security company G4S. He succeeds Ian Nisbet.<\/p>\n<p>G4S outsources security services to businesses &#8211; including electronic security, guarding and cash management. The company currently employs over 110,000 people in 30 countries across Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Baker&#8217;s main focus as regional president will be to oversee the growth of the organisation into at least three new African countries in the next 12 months.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an already substantial business, that is the largest private sector employer in Africa &#8211; but there is an opportunity to take it to a new level by focusing on opportunities to grow in our existing territories, as well as to launch our services in a number of new markets,\u201d said Baker.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking about G4S&#8217; position in the market, Baker said that the company&#8217;s \u201cproven operational expertise, high quality employees and a commitment to operational delivery&#8221; made G4S an obvious partner for companies looking to operate securely across Africa.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The potential for growth is enormous,\u201d concluded Baker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Nashua CEO, Andy Baker, has been appointed the regional president for Africa for security company, G4S. He succeeds Ian Nisbet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":7854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[1974,1975,26,551,375],"class_list":["post-7849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-it-services","tag-andy-baker","tag-g4s","tag-headline","tag-nashua-mobile","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7849","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=7849"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7851,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7849\/revisions\/7851"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}