{"id":11158,"date":"2012-06-06T10:56:58","date_gmt":"2012-06-06T08:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/06\/saudi-telecom-appoints-khaled-al-ghoneim-as-new-group-ceo\/"},"modified":"2012-06-06T10:56:58","modified_gmt":"2012-06-06T08:56:58","slug":"saudi-telecom-appoints-khaled-al-ghoneim-as-new-group-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/saudi-telecom-appoints-khaled-al-ghoneim-as-new-group-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Telecom appoints Khaled al-Ghoneim as new group CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">DUBAI, June 6<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; Saudi Telecom Co, the<br \/>\nGulf&#8217;s No.1 telecoms operator, has appointed Khaled al-Ghoneim<br \/>\nas group executive, the former monopoly said on Wednesday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ghoneim will take up his new post on June 18, replacing Saud<br \/>\nal-Daweesh, who resigned in April. At the time, STC said Daweesh<br \/>\nwould remain at the helm until October, but the company has<br \/>\nappointed his successor sooner than expected.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Saudi Telecom announces that its board, during its assembly<br \/>\non June 5, agreed to the appointment of Khaled Al-Ghoneim as CEO<br \/>\nof the group,&#8221; STC said in a statement to the Saudi bourse.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>STC is the largest Gulf telecoms operator by market value<br \/>\nwith operations across the Muslim world from Turkey to<br \/>\nIndonesia.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The firm, which remains majority government-owned nearly a<br \/>\ndecade after its partial privatisation, reported a 60 percent<br \/>\nsurge in first-quarter profit in April as rising domestic demand<br \/>\nfor broadband and data helped boost earnings. \t<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Joseph Logan,; Writing by Matt Smith; editing by<br \/>\nDinesh Nair)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DUBAI, June 6 (Reuters) &#8211; Saudi Telecom Co, the Gulf&#8217;s No.1 telecoms operator, has appointed Khaled al-Ghoneim as group executive, the former monopoly said on Wednesday. Ghoneim will take up his new post on June 18, replacing Saud al-Daweesh, who resigned in April. At the time, STC said Daweesh would remain at the helm until [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-11158","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}