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LAW firm Bowmans has appointed Joe da Silva a partner to strengthen its Africa-wide governance, compliance and investigations practice.
Da Silva has experience in conducting investigations into theft, fraud and corruption in South Africa and other African countries. He has led specialised teams in complex forensic accounting investigations in the public sector.
He joins the firm from EY. THE chief operating officer of the South African Blood Service , Ravi Reddy, has been appointed president of the International Society for Blood Transfusion.
Reddy has served SANBS for more than 30 years and manages the operations of an organisation that collects, tests, processes and distributes more than 800 000 units of donated blood a year.
He is a medical technologist with an MBA from the University of Natal. BRAND Finance has appointed Jeremy Sampson as director of Brand Finance Africa.
He has worked in marketing, advertising, graphic design, public relations and branding.
Previously he had a successful career at Interbrand, where he founded and was the executive chairman of the Africa operations of the international branding group. Sampson is a winner of the Financial Mail AdFocus lifetime achievement award. PICK n Pay has made changes to its group executive. Paulo Peereboom, formerly the commercial and supply chain director, has been appointed the retail operations and supply chain director. Paula Disberry has been appointed group commercial director.
Peereboom will bring the two areas under a single leadership and will be responsible for refining and implementing the company’s new operating model.
Disberry has experience in retail and worked at global retailer Tesco and recently at Woolworths in South Africa where she led retail operations, online and real estate. Pick n Pay CEO Richard Brasher said Peereboom’s appointment was part of the group’s strategy “to be a more efficient and customer-focused company”. SANDILE Malinga has been appointed chief operating officer at Air Traffic Navigation Services.
Malinga, who was the first CEO of the South African National Space Agency, has a PhD in physics.
He was a senior lecturer and dean’s assistant at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, where he was responsible for the science and agriculture student academic support programme. Malinga also has an MBA.