Vincent Maher named CIO at Kagiso Media Limited

Kagiso Media Limited is pleased to announce the appointment of Vincent Maher as chief innovation officer (CINO) at Kagiso Media Limited, a Kagiso Tiso Holdings company.

Maher brings with him a wealth of expertise having worked in the online media industry since 1996, across a range of businesses and sectors.

Maher was the co-founder of mobile community specialists, Motribe. When Motribe was acquired by major social network Mxit, in 2012, he took on the role of chief product officer at Mxit. While there, Maher spearheaded the social network’s migration from feature phones to smart phones. 

Prior to that, Maher was the commercial manager for Mobile Advertising and the portfolio manager for Social Media at Vodacom, South Africa’s largest mobile telecommunications company. In this role he was responsible for the rapid growth of The Grid, Vodacom’s location-based social network and instant messaging platform. Maher also helped launch Legends of Echo, a multiplayer location-based mobile game. 

Maher has also held the position of strategist at the Mail & Guardian Online and of co-founder of the blog search engine and article aggregator Amatomu.com. He also enjoyed stints as the director of the New Media Lab at the Rhodes University School of Journalism & Media Studies and the managing director of Digital Commerce and Multimedia Director at VWV Interactive.

Of his Kagiso Media appointment, Maher says, “The zone where audiences, media and technology collide is where you find the greatest opportunity to innovate and create new media that never existed before. I am looking forward to getting right into the thick of it at Kagiso Media.”

Maher’s role will incorporate the development of new and innovative concepts, prototyping new products in the mobile and apps space and looking at the technical standards across the group. Kagiso Media Limited has the www.howzit.msn.com portal, which is published under licence from Microsoft, in its stable, along with several other new media properties such as Zalebs and Adfu.

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