{"id":442702,"date":"2022-04-29T09:25:35","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T07:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=442702"},"modified":"2022-04-29T09:27:39","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T07:27:39","slug":"metrofibre-ceo-steps-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/442702-metrofibre-ceo-steps-down.html","title":{"rendered":"MetroFibre CEO steps down"},"content":{"rendered":"

MetroFibre has announced that its CEO, Dr Steve Booysen, will step down. He will be succeeded by Jan-Jan Bezuidenhout on 1 June 2022.<\/p>\n

Bezuidenhout currently serves as the fibre operator\u2019s deputy CEO.<\/p>\n

Booysen will continue to provide support on a consultancy basis to MetroFibre\u2019s executive leadership until the end of August 2022.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been an incredible 12-year journey as a founder member and provider of seed capital back in 2010, when we founded MetroFibre,\u201d Booysen said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m extremely proud of what we have achieved, and excited at what is still to come for the business.\u201d<\/p>\n

Booysen expressed special thanks to co-founders Malcolm Kirby, Johan van der Lith, and Eugene Slabbert.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am especially proud to be able to hand over the reins to Jan-Jan, who is an accomplished and respected leader within our business, with a deep understanding of the market and exceptional strategic capabilities,\u201d said Booysen.<\/p>\n

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Jan-Jan Bezuidenhout, Metrofibre incoming CEO<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cJan-Jan was appointed deputy CEO in 2019 with a clear succession plan mapped out, and I am confident that under his leadership and with the support of a phenomenal team of colleagues and exco, MetroFibre will continue to thrive.\u201d<\/p>\n

Before joining MetroFibre, Jan-Jan worked at Absa and Sanlam, focusing on private equity, infrastructure Investments, and corporate development.<\/p>\n

He holds BCom and LLB degrees from Stellenbosch University, and completed a post-graduate course in Philosophy, Management and Strategy, Corporate Finance, and Competition Law at the London School of Economics.<\/p>\n

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Now read: Fibre price war in South Africa \u2014 MetroFibre throws down the gauntlet<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr Steve Booysen will hand over MetroFibre’s reins to Jan-Jan Bezuidenhout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":442704,"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":[19,28470],"tags":[78118,59717,67667],"class_list":["post-442702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-fibre","tag-jan-jan-bezuidenhout","tag-metrofibre","tag-steve-booysen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442702"}],"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=442702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}