{"id":79333,"date":"2015-02-09T11:30:21","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T09:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=79333"},"modified":"2015-02-09T11:30:21","modified_gmt":"2015-02-09T09:30:21","slug":"seacom-appoints-new-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/79333\/seacom-appoints-new-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"Seacom appoints new CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seacom, a network service provider and ICT enabler, has announced the appointment of Byron Clatterbuck as its chief executive officer (CEO).<\/p>\n<p>Clatterbuck joined Seacom in 2012 as chief commercial officer with responsibility for driving revenue growth from African and global service provider customers and partners.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to this, Clatterbuck was the President of Tata Communications\u2019 global service provider segment, a company operating the largest private subsea cable system network in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to that, he\u00a0 held senior executive positions at BT, Level 3, and REACH.<\/p>\n<p>Seacom founder, Brian Herlihy, took up a position as executive director of the group in February last year, following the resignation of previous CEO, Mark Simpson.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeacom has changed the African ICT landscape and it is now time for us to continue this transformation by driving new services and capabilities into Africa\u2019s marketplace. &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Clatterbuck will lead Seacom into a new era of growth and leverage his operational and business development know-how to unleash the power and speed of Seacom\u2019s global network,&#8221; said Herlihy.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Seacom<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Seacom extends full-year losses\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/68804\/seacom-extends-full-year-loss\/\"><strong>Seacom extends full-year losses<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Seacom restructures top management\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/53068\/seacom-restructures-top-management\/\"><strong>Seacom restructures top management<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Seacom CEO steps down\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/52818\/seacom-ceo-steps-down\/\"><strong>Seacom CEO steps down<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seacom has announced the appointment of Byron Clatterbuck as its chief executive officer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":68808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26,39],"class_list":["post-79333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-headline","tag-seacom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79333","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=79333"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79337,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79333\/revisions\/79337"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}