{"id":8946,"date":"2012-04-03T10:01:06","date_gmt":"2012-04-03T08:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=8946"},"modified":"2012-04-03T12:23:10","modified_gmt":"2012-04-03T10:23:10","slug":"altech-has-no-immediate-plans-to-replace-hedberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/8946\/altech-has-no-immediate-plans-to-replace-hedberg\/","title":{"rendered":"Altech has no immediate plans to replace Hedberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Altech\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/1725-Altech\">Altech<\/a> has no immediate plans to replace former chief operating officer, <a title=\"Jeffrey Hedberg\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/1668-Jeffrey-Hedberg\">Jeffrey Hedberg<\/a>, who left the company at the end of January 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Altech explained that the position of COO is currently managed by Altech CEO, <a title=\"Craig Venter\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/1706-Craig-Venter\">Craig Venter<\/a>, with the support of two experienced executives &#8211; <a title=\"John Carstens\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/1726-John-Carstens\">John Carstens<\/a> and <a title=\"Johan Klein\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/1727-Johan-Klein\">Johan Klein<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>John Carstens, in addition to his current duties as chief financial officer, is overseeing the portfolios of &#8216;Converged Services &amp; Connectivity&#8217;, and &#8216;Multi-media &amp; Electronics&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Johan Klein, in addition to his duties of group executive human resources and industrial relations, is also responsible for the portfolios of &#8216;Telecoms Services&#8217; and &#8216;Information Technology&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe position of COO will be reviewed in the next six to twelve months,\u201d Altech said.<\/p>\n<p>Venter announced on 19 January 2012 that Hedberg had resigned from Altech to pursue his career outside of the Altech Group.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Altech and Hedberg part ways\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/3559\/altech-and-hedberg-part-ways\/\"><strong>Altech and Hedberg part ways<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Craig Venter hits back\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/5526\/craig-venter-hits-back\/\"><strong>Craig Venter hits back<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Altech explains that the position of COO is being managed by the Altech CEO with support from two executives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[311,867,26,903,2194,2193],"class_list":["post-8946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-it-services","tag-altech","tag-craig-venter","tag-headline","tag-jeffrey-hedberg","tag-johan-klein","tag-john-carstens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8946","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8946"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8957,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8946\/revisions\/8957"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}