/ 25 June 2012

Naspers online pioneer Antonie Roux dies

The man who helped pioneer media giant Naspers's online expansion
The man who helped pioneer media giant Naspers's online expansion
Roux (54), who was a former CEO of internet service provider MWeb, joined the Naspers group as a junior technician in 1979 and was a founding member of pay-TV operator M-Net in 1985. In 2002 he was appointed as CEO of the group’s internet operations before being named CEO of the MIH group, which holds Naspers’s pay-TV and internet assets, in April 2011.
 
On Roux’s watch, Naspers rapidly built a global internet business focused on emerging markets, taking investments in Mail.ru in Russia, Tencent in China and Allegro in Poland.
 
Roux, who was regarded as a potential successor to Naspers CEO Koos Bekker, reportedly had pancreatic cancer. – 2012 NewsCentral Media