{"id":98325,"date":"2015-09-14T15:11:37","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T13:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=98325"},"modified":"2015-09-14T15:11:37","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T13:11:37","slug":"lenovo-appoints-new-gm-for-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/98325\/lenovo-appoints-new-gm-for-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Lenovo appoints new GM for Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lenovo has appointed Marc Godin as vice president and GM MEA to lead the company\u2019s business in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region, effective immediately.<\/p>\n<p>Godin succeeds Oliver Ebel who has moved to head up Lenovo\u2019s smartphone business across EMEA including both Motorola and Lenovo smartphones and wearable technology.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to this role Godin was VP of the UK &amp; Ireland region where he took the PC business from 11.9% two years ago to today\u2019s 18.2% and a clear number 2 position.<\/p>\n<p>Most notably Godin presided over a growth trajectory from number 5 in consumer PCs two years ago to a number 2 position of 19.4%.<\/p>\n<p>Before his UK &amp; Ireland role, Godin led the Enterprise and Public Sector business at Western European level.<\/p>\n<p>Godin\u2019s 28 year career includes sales, marketing and supply chain leadership roles in both Lenovo and IBM across PCs, enterprise and public sector.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Lenovo<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/electronics\/78857\/lenovo-profits-drop-thanks-to-motorola\/\">Lenovo profits drop thanks to Motorola<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/hardware\/69643\/lenovo-to-wrap-up-2-1-billion-ibm-server-acquisition\/\">Lenovo to wrap up $2.1 billion IBM server acquisition<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lenovo has appointed Marc Godin as vice president and GM MEA to lead the company\u2019s business in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region, effective immediately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":52535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,1388],"class_list":["post-98325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-active","tag-lenovo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98325","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=98325"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98333,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98325\/revisions\/98333"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}