Cape Town born Gibbons takes up the position of General Manager of Business Development for Property24.com and Korbitec. South Africa’s leading property portal, Property24.com recently merged with business software development company, Korbitec.

Gibbons' arrival follows the announcement that JP Farinha - current CEO of 24.com - will join Korbitec to head up Property24.com in December 2010.

“We're very serious about growing the industry leading property platform and portal,” says Dawie Verryne, Korbitec CEO. “To do that successfully we need the best experience in the global economy. JP and David certainly fall into that category, and we're delighted to have then on board.” Gibbons is a global marketing and social media leader whose career took off in the USA with Amazon.com. Initially managing Enterprise Integration (ensuring the integrity of information moving between various organisations in the Amazon network) Gibbons moved on to manage Amazon's international call centres.

Gibbons highlights bandwidth accessibility and mobile Internet access as the two factors likely to define the country's future digital trajectory.

“With new undersea cables coming online regularly, uncapped access to the Internet is steadily becoming a reality for the average consumer and is driving major online behaviour change. And then there's mobile access, which in South Africa is also a big force to consider,” he says.