{"id":2286,"date":"2007-12-19T11:15:48","date_gmt":"2007-12-19T09:15:48","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-02-04T09:43:47","modified_gmt":"2013-02-04T07:43:47","slug":"new-ceo-for-powertech-ist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/2286-new-ceo-for-powertech-ist.html","title":{"rendered":"New CEO for Powertech IST"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Powertech, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Altron Group, has announced the appointment of Dr Herb Chikwanda as the CEO of its newly acquired subsidiary, Powertech IST.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Chikwanda was formerly MD of IST Energy, and will take over the position of CEO Powertech IST as of March 1, 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Chikwanda will be succeeding Hannes Visagie, who was acting CEO of IST since the company was acquired by Powertech. Visagie has been promoted to Group Executive Director of Powertech, responsible for the Group\u2019s Integration Services.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the seven years he spent as MD of IST Energy, Dr Chikwanda was director of business development at Engineering Management Services.<\/p>\n<p>He also held senior positions at Murray &amp; Roberts Contractors, CSIR and GEC Alsthom Traction (UK).<\/p>\n<p>Dr Chikwanda is a Chartered Electrical Engineer through membership of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (UK) and a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (USA).<\/p>\n<p><em>I-Net Bridge<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Powertech has announced the appointment of Dr Herb Chikwanda as the CEO of its subsidiary, Powertech IST<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2286"}],"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\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}