{"id":96639,"date":"2014-02-13T11:31:22","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T09:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=96639"},"modified":"2014-02-13T13:26:58","modified_gmt":"2014-02-13T11:26:58","slug":"seacom-in-management-shuffle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/96639-seacom-in-management-shuffle.html","title":{"rendered":"Seacom in management shuffle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the resignation of <a title=\"Seacom\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/227005-SEACOM\">Seacom<\/a> CEO <a title=\"Mark Simpson\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/361756-Mark-Simpson\">Mark Simpson<\/a>, the group has restructured its senior management roles to power its new growth strategy.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, the network service provider announced changes to the heads of business development, business operations and sales departments, alongside the affirmation of the compay&#8217;s new chief financial officer, and return of its founder, <a title=\"Brian Herlihy\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/207951-Brian-Herlihy\"><strong>Brian Herlihy<\/strong><\/a>, as executive director.<\/p>\n<p>Herlihy raised the venture capital and founded Seacom in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The changes to the Seacom leadership team will enhance synergies between regions and functions within the business, as well as position Seacom to enter new markets in Africa,&#8221; the company said.<\/p>\n<p>The group announced the following shifts and appointments:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Chris Smyth\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/596801-Chris-Smyth\"><strong>Chris Smyth<\/strong><\/a> was appointed as CFO in October 2013, heading up the finance function of Seacom, which comprises amongst others, statutory and monthly reporting and analysis, budgeting, treasury, payments, billings and collections;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Previous head of product strategy, <a title=\"Suveer Ramdhani\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/596803-Suveer-Ramdhani\"><strong>Suveer Ramdhani<\/strong><\/a> has been appointed as head of the newly established business development group, which will focus on Seacom\u2019s strategic growth into new markets;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Seacom chief commercial officer, <a title=\"Byron Clatterbuck\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/596805-Byron-Clatterbuck\"><strong>Byron Clatterbuck<\/strong><\/a>, will now also head up a consolidated Product and service development and sales and marketing department;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Willem Marais\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/596813-Willem-Marais\"><strong>Willem Marais<\/strong><\/a> was promoted to global head of sales, with global responsibility for all Seacom sales teams across all segments;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Robert Marston\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/596815-Robert-Marston\"><strong>Robert Marston<\/strong><\/a> was promoted to global head of product and will taking the lead in designing, developing and managing all Seacom products and services;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Nicola Haynes-Smart\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/596817-Nicola-Haynes-Smart\"><strong>Nicola Haynes-Smart<\/strong><\/a> was promoted to head of business operations. In addition to her responsibility for sales operations, she will drive analysis of business performance together with the product team.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 id=\"related\">More Seacom articles<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/95057-potential-nsa-spying-on-sa-networks.html\"><strong>Potential NSA spying on SA networks<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/94975-seacom-down-in-sa.html\"><strong>Seacom down in SA<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/general\/68988-seacoms-aidan-baigrie-steps-down.html\"><strong>Seacom\u2019s Aidan Baigrie steps down<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/57665-cheaper-international-transit-the-effect.html\"><strong>Cheaper international transit: the effect<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the resignation of Seacom CEO Mark Simpson, the group has restructured its senior management roles to power its new growth strategy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":74233,"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":[18],"tags":[36,2944,23589,317],"class_list":["post-96639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-brian-herlihy","tag-restructure","tag-seacom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96639"}],"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=96639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96657,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96639\/revisions\/96657"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}