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MAGATHO Mello has been appointed enterprise development executive at the South African Bureau of Standards.
Mello has more than 20 years’ experience in helping businesses streamline processes, implement technological solutions and increase sales. He has executive experience in managing customer delivery and enterprise development in telecommunications.
Mello has worked for MTN, Powertech IST, Vodacom and IBM. He is a nonexecutive director of Sentech. He has an MSc in electrical engineering and has done the global executive development programme at Gordon Institute of Business Science. THE South African Post Office has appointed Lindiwe Kwele as chief operating officer.
She was Tshwane’s deputy city manager. Before that, she was CEO of the Joburg Tourism Company and CEO of Durban Africa in the eThekwini municipality.
She holds an MBA from the University of Wales and has completed the Gordon Institute of Business Science’s executive leadership programme, the municipal finance management programme at the University of Pretoria and a BAdmin degree from the University of DurbanWestville
Post office CEO Mark Barnes said Kwele would help to improve mail operation efficiencies and customer service. MARTIN Haines has become the new MD of Ninzi-Connect, a telecommunications and customer engagement solutions company.
Haines has more than 17 years’ experience in the contact centre industry, including several years with Aspect UK.
Haines returned to South Africa in 2006 and joined Ninzi-Connect.
He said: “Our vision is to be the best omnichannel contact centre provider in the country; to consistently grow our market space and to explore new developments and opportunities. This vision builds on our culture, which is to always deliver the highest standard of service that our customers expect from day one.” LESIBA Mothata has been promoted to the post of executive chief economist at investment company Investment Solutions. This means that he will serve on the company’s executive committee, where he will provide context on the market and economic conditions, especially relating to South Africa and emerging markets, while tackling the issue of the poor financial and retirement health of South Africa’s workforce.
Mothata joined Investment Solutions in 2013 after a two-year spell at the Reserve Bank.
His academic qualifications include a BCom, an honours in economics and a master’s degree in financial economics. PHILIP Johnson has been made a partner at ERM, an environmental, health, safety, risk, and social consulting services company.
He has 12 years of international environmental consultancy experience, much of it from environmental support roles within the oil and gas sector, including the assessment of operational oil fields and production facilities, multiple assessment and monitoring programmes at oil refineries, coordination of emergency response operations, and management of environmental risk within national multisite petroleum portfolios. Johnson has undertaken projects in Europe, Asia, Australasia and the Middle East.