{"id":101678,"date":"2014-05-05T12:56:54","date_gmt":"2014-05-05T10:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=101678"},"modified":"2014-05-21T08:52:10","modified_gmt":"2014-05-21T06:52:10","slug":"farren-roper-joins-microsoft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/101678-farren-roper-joins-microsoft.html","title":{"rendered":"Farren Roper joins Microsoft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The former head of <a title=\"FNB Connect\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/343353-FNB-Connect\">FNB Connect<\/a>, <a title=\"Farren Roper\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/303819-Farren-Roper\">Farren Roper<\/a>, has joined software firm <a title=\"Microsoft\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/211580-Microsoft\">Microsoft<\/a> in the role of central marketing organisation (CMO) lead.<\/p>\n<p>FNB announced at the end of September 2013, that Roper would be stepping down from his position to pursue \u201ca great opportunity in the telecoms space\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>FNB Connect is <span class=\"st\">an Internet service provider which operates as a business unit within FirstRand Bank Limited.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft confirmed the appointment after Roper announced the news on Twitter on Friday (2 May).<\/p>\n<p>Roper had filled the role of Head of FNB Connect ISP and Business Operations since 2009.<\/p>\n<p>He joined FNB in May 2008 where his legal career opened a path for him at FNB Connect as Head of Legal Risk and Compliance, where he quickly became a telecommunications regulatory and governance specialist.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_101680\" style=\"width: 596px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Farren-Roper-Microsoft.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-101680\" class=\"size-full wp-image-101680\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Farren-Roper-Microsoft.png\" alt=\"Farren Roper Microsoft\" width=\"586\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-101680\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Farren Roper Microsoft tweets<\/p><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on FNB<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/banking\/101096-fnb-disciplinary-processes-after-offensive-tweet.html\">FNB disciplinary processes after offensive tweet<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/101600-fnb-samsung-s5-with-fit-gear-2-prices.html\">FNB Samsung S5 with Fit, Gear 2 prices<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/101038-fnbs-rbjacobs-strikes-again.html\">FNB\u2019s Rbjacobs strikes again<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/100964-fnb-twitter-joke-goes-very-wrong.html\">FNB Twitter \u201cjoke\u201d causes online storm<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former head of FNB Connect, Farren Roper, has joined Microsoft<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":83581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[36,5924,1313,123],"class_list":["post-101678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-active","tag-farren-roper","tag-fnb","tag-microsoft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101678"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102583,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101678\/revisions\/102583"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}