{"id":95551,"date":"2015-08-12T11:12:28","date_gmt":"2015-08-12T09:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=95551"},"modified":"2015-08-12T11:12:28","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T09:12:28","slug":"dimension-data-appoints-new-ceo-for-mea-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/95551\/dimension-data-appoints-new-ceo-for-mea-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Dimension Data appoints new CEO for MEA region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a move aimed at accelerating Dimension Data\u2019s five-year strategy to double its revenues, the company has announced the appointment of Grant Bodley as CEO Middle East &amp; Africa (MEA).<\/p>\n<p>Derek Wilcocks, current CEO of Dimension Data MEA, and Sean Joubert, current MD of Dimension Data MEA will both be taking up executive positions within the global group.<\/p>\n<p>All appointments are effective 1 October 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Bodley (40) joined Dimension Data in 2000.\u00a0 Prior to being appointed sales director of Dimension Data MEA in 2012 \u2013 the role he currently holds &#8211; he headed up Dimension Data MEA\u2019s IT Outsourcing business.<\/p>\n<p>Brett Dawson, Dimension Data\u2019s Group CEO said: \u201cGrant has a strong business background, as well as an IT focus, which means he\u2019s able to bridge the gap between IT and business for our clients.\u00a0 This, coupled with an excellent track record spanning 15 years with Dimension Data, positions him well to successfully lead the Dimension Data MEA business.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Dimension Data<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/11408\/derek-wilcocks-the-new-ceo-of-dimension-data-mea\/\">Derek Wilcocks the new CEO of Dimension Data MEA<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/66910\/dimension-data-in-talks-to-buy-mweb-business-sources\/\">Dimension Data in talks to buy MWEB Business: sources<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dimension Data has announced the appointment of Grant Bodley as CEO Middle East &#038; Africa (MEA).  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-it-services"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95551","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=95551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95553,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95551\/revisions\/95553"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}