{"id":5057,"date":"2008-09-02T09:19:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-02T07:19:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-09-02T09:19:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-02T07:19:00","slug":"sars-cio-joins-huge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/5057-sars-cio-joins-huge.html","title":{"rendered":"SARS CIO joins Huge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Huge Group has announced that in line with the group&#8217;s promise to build intellectual capital, Ken Jarvis (<a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/photos\/showphoto.php\/photo\/5966\" target=\"_blank\">image here<\/a>), the ex-CIO of the South African Revenue Service, will join the&nbsp;company from 1 September in a non-executive capacity.&nbsp; This news closely follows the appointment last month of Don Tredoux, founder of Orion Telecom, also in a non-executive capacity.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Jarvis, the man responsible for the turnaround of SARS from 2002 &#8211; 2006, started his working career in the mid-70&#8217;s and spent a decade with IBM.&nbsp; His CV lists a host of well-known companies who have head-hunted him over the years, including: Nedacom, Momentum Life, Nedcor Bank, Amplats, Multichoice and SARS.&nbsp; <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Jarvis&#8217;s experience includes project rollouts, consolidation exercises and transformational initiatives.&nbsp; His&nbsp; documentation of SARS&#8217;s IT strategy was rated number one in worldwide Thought Leadership by Gartner and he has presented to over 5,000 people in Cannes on the success of SARS&#8217;s &#8216;Single View of the Client&#8217; project.&nbsp; Jarvis was the winner of the 2004 ICT Leadership award and was voted the Public Sector CIO of that year.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Currently heading up his own company, JIKA Africa, Jarvis says his new position on Huge&#8217;s board will allow him to assist in the company&#8217;s strategic direction as they navigate the fast-paced telecommunications landscape.&nbsp; Huge&#8217;s board now comprises a formidable combination of leading industry executives from the likes of MTN, Autopage, Orion (Vox) and the ex-MD&#8217;s of TelePassport and CentraCell. <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former SARS CIO Ken Jarvis joins Huge<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telecoms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5057"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}