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SAP appoints new GM for Nigeria
New SAP General Manager for Nigeria, Richard Edet has pledged to make West Africa the best run region of its operations on the continent. SAP appointed Edet this week to lead its operations in Africa’s most populous country. He brings…
Bhargava appointed Airtel Kenya Managing Director
Shivan Bhargava has been appointed Airtel Kenya Managing Director, replacing Rene Meza who resigned to join Vodacom Tanzania in the same capacity. Bhargava was the firm’s Chief Operating Officer, a position he occupied until his appointment. In a statement, Airtel…
Former Bharti Airtel Kenya MD joins Vodacom
Vodacom today announced the appointment of Rene Meza as Managing Director of Vodacom Tanzania. Currently Managing Director of Bharti Airtel’s Kenya operations, Rene brings over 12 years’ international experience in telecommunications across Africa, Asia and Latin America. “We’re very excited…
PwC appoints new Head of Information Security
Companies need to get back to basics and stop being reactive when it comes to risk and security management. Risk and security issues today, although more sophisticated in name, are essentially the same as they’ve always been and require holistic…
Software AG Group appoints Darren Roos
Software AG, an enterprise software company based in Germany, has announced the appointment of South African Darren Roos to the Software AG Group Executive Board in August 2011, as Chief Operating Officer (COO) for the EMEA region. Darren joined Software…
ABSA loses Group Financial Director to Telkom
Telkom Group has appointed former ABSA Group Financial Director Jacques Schindehütte as their new Chief Financial Officer (CFO), a position that’s been effective since 1 August 2011. During a media briefing held last week in Johannesburg, South Africa, Schindehütte acknowledged…
Kenya court fires communications boss
The High Court of Kenya has issued a temporary judgment ordering the embattled Communication Commission of Kenya (CCK) Director General Charles Njoroge to vacate his office. In his ruling High Court Judge Justice David Maraga said that the decision was…
Kenya’s CCK boss re-appointed
The fate of Communication Commission of Kenya (CCK) Director General Charles Njoroge has been sealed following the gazetting of his appointment of his re-appointment by the Kenya Minister of Information and Communication Minister Samuel L.Poghision. Njoroge’s reinstatement has been at…
Profile of Egypt’s new telecom minister: Mohamed Salem
Mohamed Abdel Kader Mohamed Salem took the reins of the Egyptian Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) last Thursday, the 21st of July 2011. According to a biography on MCIT’s website he specializes in infrastructure planning, strategic project management,…
Dimension Data appoints Cloud Business CEO
Dimension Data has appointed Steve Nola as the CEO for a newly formed Cloud Solutions business unit. Nola was CEO of Dimension Data in Australia from 2001. This follows the announcement last month that Dimension Data had acquired the Santa-Clara based…
Epson SA makes key new appointments
Epson SA, a printer and printer accessories company, has made four new key appointments to its management team. Hennie Crous joins Epson as its channel sales manager where he will be responsible for Epson’s Tier1 distributors and will be working…
VMware appoints Chief Cloud Technologist for EMEA
VMware Inc, a global virtualisation and cloud infrastructure company, announced the appointment of Joe Baguley to the newly created role of Chief Cloud Technologist in EMEA (Europe Middle East and Africa), reporting to the CTO’s office in Palo Alto, US.…
Telkom Kenya appoints new chairman
Telkom Kenya has made changes to its board of directors with the appointment of Eddy Njoroge as the chairman of the board. Njoroge, who is currently the Managing Director of the Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen) and the Chair of…
Cisco Announces new Channel Director for SA
Cisco, a networking company, has appointed Stefano Mattiello to assume the role of Director Channel for Cisco in South Africa. Mattiello’s mandate is to re-energise the channel partner model, reporting directly to Cisco’s South African country manager, David Meads. Mattiello…
HP Software SA appoints new Channel Manager
Hewlett-Packard has appointed Clive Brindley as the new Software Channel Manager for HP South Africa, effective 1 August 2011. Brindley joined HP in 2007 and previously served as a Solution Architect and Pre-Sales Manager in the Business Technology Optimisation (BTO)…
New appointment at Bharti Airtel Nigeria
BHARTI Airtel Nigeria, a leading telecommunications service provider has promoted Solanke Abimbola to the position of Financial Controller. The new promotion is in line with the company’s firm commitment to the personal and professional advancement of its Nigerian employees. Abimbola,…
