Vodafone lands Microsoft executive for business role

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Victoria Young
By Victoria Young Aug. 13 (BusinessDesk) - Vodafone New Zealand boss Jason Paris has made a key appointment to the telco’s executive team, snaring Microsoft executive Lindsay Zwart.  Heading up the division which sells products to businesses, as opposed to individual consumers, Zwart returns to New Zealand after five years in the United States. She was most recently the general manager of Microsoft’s cloud and enterprise business.  Her appointment comes as Infratil and Canada’s Brookfield Asset Management officially took over as owners...

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