{"id":293884,"date":"2019-01-29T10:22:20","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T08:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=293884"},"modified":"2019-01-29T10:31:02","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T08:31:02","slug":"absa-ceo-maria-ramos-steps-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/banking\/293884-absa-ceo-maria-ramos-steps-down.html","title":{"rendered":"Absa CEO Maria Ramos steps down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maria Ramos has stepped down as CEO of Absa Group and Absa Bank, the bank has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sharedata.co.za\/v2\/Scripts\/News.aspx?c=ABSP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>announced<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ramos has been CEO of Absa for 10 years, and led the bank through the acquisition of Barclays Africa in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>She had wanted to step down earlier, but agreed to see the group through its separation negotiations with Barclays as well as the resulting &#8220;sell-down and key separation milestones,&#8221; which included Absa&#8217;s brand refresh.<\/p>\n<p>Ramos will officially retire in February when she turns 60.<\/p>\n<p>Absa announced the appointment of interim CEO\u00a0Ren\u00e9 van Wyk, who has been an independent non-executive director on Absa&#8217;s board since February 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Van Wyk worked at Nedbank for 19 years, including as executive director of Risk for Nedcor Investment Bank.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The boards wish to thank Maria for a decade of dedicated service to our group and wish her all the best in her future endeavours,&#8221; said Absa.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/293864-ackermans-launches-an-iphone-lookalike.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Ackermans launches an iPhone lookalike<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maria Ramos has stepped down as CEO of Absa Group and Absa Bank, the bank announced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341039,"featured_media":293890,"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":[10106],"tags":[2186,8793,57040],"class_list":["post-293884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banking","tag-absa","tag-maria-ramos","tag-rene-van-wyk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293884"}],"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\/341039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":293886,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293884\/revisions\/293886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}