IS executive moving on
The IS COO, Greg Payne, is leaving to take up an executive position at Afrihost – a large customer and partner of IS, and Tony Walt will assume the role of COO, combining some of his current duties as Chief Customer Officer for IS with the duties of the company's COO position.
Making the announcement to staff, IS CEO Angus MacRobert wished Greg Payne well in his new business venture; “Greg has been with IS for 12 years exactly, and done a lot for our business and our customers during this time.”
MacRobert continued: “It is with great pleasure that Tony Walt takes on the COO role within IS. Tony will continue to look after his current team, but will now also look after the Client Services team. This Client Services team will now be led by Costa Koutakis, the new Client Services Director. Costa becomes an IS Divisional Director, and will have the Escalations Team report to him. Costa's promotion comes after 8 years off exceptional performance at IS, and we are very proud to have him as as fellow divisional director.”
MacRobert told the IS staff; “I am very excited about the year ahead of us. We sold more hosting real estate last year than the previous 7 years combined. And we are currently rolling out two of the biggest networks we have managed to date – SARS and TENET.”
“We have entered a voice market of R80 billion and we sell voice at 17 cents / minute; whereas our competitors sell it in a range of 44c to 280cents / minute. We need to focus on the interconnect regime to lower these tariffs, so that all South Africans can enjoy affordable communication costs.”
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