{"id":5015,"date":"2008-08-28T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-28T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-08-28T12:30:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-28T10:30:00","slug":"microsoft-sa-gets-new-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/5015-microsoft-sa-gets-new-chief.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft SA gets new chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has appointed Mteto Nyati to head up its South African subsidiary as the company steps up its plans to grow its business across all sectors of the local economy. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Nyati, who will take over the Microsoft SA reins on 1 September, comes to Microsoft from a 12-year career at IBM, where he was the director of IBM Global Technology Services for South and Central Africa since June 2005. <\/p>\n<p>Ali Faramawy, the vice-president of Microsoft&#8217;s Middle East and Africa region, said Nyati brings a wealth of knowledge and experience from his time at IBM in a series of senior roles. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;This is a pivotal time for Microsoft SA,&quot; he said. &quot;I believe the company is well-placed to drive even greater levels of value for our customers and partners at an individual, organisational and national level &#8211; making them more competitive and more able to achieve their potential. We believe Mteto&rsquo;s experience makes him the ideal person to drive our local business forward.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Nyati led three large business units &#8211; telecommunications, small and medium business and IBM Global Services &#8211; in his time at IBM. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;South Africa is a key market for Microsoft, and this is an exciting time for the ICT industry and the country. It&#8217;s an honour to be leading a team that is committed and passionate about contributing to the nation and its people in this way,&quot; said Nyati. <\/p>\n<p>Nyati holds a BSc in mechanical engineering from the University of Natal and an MBA from Wits University. He was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship in 1985, and in 2004 was named as one of the Yale University&#8217;s World Fellows on Global Leadership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has appointed Mteto Nyati to head up its South African subsidiary as the company steps up its plans to grow its business across all sectors of the local economy. &nbsp; Nyati, who will take over the Microsoft SA reins on 1 September, comes to Microsoft from a 12-year career at IBM, where he was<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"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":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5015"}],"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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}