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DAVID Rozzio has been appointed MD of information technology company HP in South Africa. He will be responsible for leading the company in this country, as well as driving growth in the printing and personal systems businesses.

Rozzio has been with HP for 15 years, most recently as a director for HP’s printing and personal systems business in the Middle East, Mediterranean and Africa.

He has a master’s in mechanical engineering from Montpellier University in France.

LARA Granville has joined law firm Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr’s competition practice as a director from Norton Rose Fulbright South Africa, where she was also a director in the same field.

Granville has an LLM, focusing on antitrust, development and constitutional law, from New York University.

She has experience in merger control advice and notification, cartel and abuse of dominance investigations, and competition compliance processes. She has also assisted clients in relation to economic regulatory and policy issues in the telecommunications, broadcasting and gas industries.

TIMES Media Group, the owner of the Sunday Times, has appointed Susie White national sales manager: agencies and retail.

For the past six years, White has been general manager of Business Media, a company delivering advertising sales across a range of digital and print publications, including Time, Daily Maverick, BizNews, Fortune and Moneyweb.

Before joining Business Media, White was national sales manager for Associated Magazines in Johannesburg, and before that she was sales and marketing director of the team that launched business news channel CNBC into Africa.

ACTRESS, singer, presenter, producer, musical director and businesswoman Relebogile Mabotja has been appointed to the board of the Southern African Music Rights Organisation. She is the only woman publisher on the board.

“I am truly honoured to have even been considered to join the board of an organisation that plays such a pivotal role for music makers and musicians in the country. As a board member, I want to advocate for opportunities for women in the music industry.” She wanted women to bring about positive change and upliftment in the industry.