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THE National Association of Automotive Component and Allied Manufacturers has appointed Renai Moothilal as its new executive director as of September. The association has been without a full-time leader since last year.
Moothilal, a University of KwaZulu-Natal-trained development economist, spent the past decade at the Department of Trade and Industry, most recently as a senior official in the automotive policy unit. He has also worked at the National Treasury, FNB Corporate and Liberty Group. TINA Eboka, MD of the NTP Group of companies, which deals with radiation technology and products and is a subsidiary of the South African Nuclear Energy Corporation, has been appointed vice-chairwoman of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Nuclear Energy Agency high-level group on the security of supply of medical radioisotopes.
Eboka, who has headed the NTP Group since June 2014, is the first South African to be elected to this role. It also marks the first time an executive of a major isotope producer has been chosen. AEROSPACE and defence contractor AAR has appointed AAR vice-president Cheryle Robinson Jackson its first president of AAR Africa.
Jackson has served as AAR’s vice-president of government affairs and corporate development since she joined the company in 2010.
More recently, Jackson added business development to her responsibilities and has been successful in growing the aerospace company’s business in Africa.
She spent much of the past two years travelling between the US and Africa to solidify AAR’s foothold on the continent. BADIBANGA Promesse has been appointed regional director at the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants Africa, the largest professional body of management accountants.
Promesse has been the institute’s strategic account director since 2010.
Samantha Louis, the outgoing regional director, said: “Badi’s expertise in relationship management will be vital in delivering the CIMA Africa regional board strategy of developing the public sector and raising funds to fund students via organisations such as the World Bank and Africa Development Bank.”