After six years as Intel`s country manager for southern Africa, Steve Nossel has accepted a new position and has been replaced by Jacques van Schalkwyk.
Van Schalkwyk was previously at Intel`s Europe office, and from 1997 to 2000 he opened and headed up Intel`s networking division in SA. From 2000 to October 2004, he was sales manager for Intel Western Europe.
Nossel joined Intel in 1998 and held the same position until his recent move to the position of business development manager for enterprise business for the Middle East, Turkey and Africa.
"In my new position, I will have more focus than I had in the general management position and I will look after strategic clients, which locally will include the likes of Telkom and the government," says Nossel.
He will still operate from a South African office.
"After six years in the same position, I felt I needed to make a career move and I think the company also needs to have a fresh new set of eyes looking at it, and that could only be achieved by bringing in someone new," he explains.
In his new position, Nossel says he will see Intel maximising the opportunities that are present on the continent beyond the sub-Saharan region, particularly in East and West Africa.
He concludes that from a somewhat slow start last year, the African market has had a good year, and with the popularity of the Pentium brand on the continent, Nossel is confident of good market penetration.
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