Eskom has appointed veteran South African IT chief Len de Villiers as its chief info and expertise officer on a three-year contract.
The extremely regarded De Villiers, who has beforehand served as CIO at Telkom, Absa and Nedbank, has greater than 40 years of expertise in IT administration and – in accordance with an announcement by Eskom – is taken into account one in all South Africa’s high CIOs.
“He has in depth expertise within the monetary companies business and [in leading] advanced expertise change initiatives and is predicted to help our enterprise in embracing the tempo of digitalisation, the usage of synthetic intelligence and elevated ranges [of focus] in areas [like] cybersecurity,” Eskom stated.
In his many IT management roles through the years, De Villiers has served as group CIO of Nedbank (2003-2008), group CIO of Absa (2008-2012), group CIO of Telkom (2013-2018) and group CIO of the JSE (2018-2021). He has additionally mentored many IT leaders in South African enterprise.
Information of De Villiers’ appointment comes as Eskom CEO Dan Marokane strikes to fill a lot of vacancies on the state-owned electrical energy utility.
Marokane introduced 4 senior management appointments on Thursday, together with De Villiers. Three extra will observe quickly, the corporate stated.
The brand new govt hires are aimed toward “additional addressing the present enterprise challenges and futureproofing the organisation by way of the supply of strategic initiatives to allow development and long-term sustainability”, Eskom stated within the assertion.
New expertise
“Eskom recognised that it wanted to herald some new expertise on the govt stage to information its groups within the enterprise so it could possibly execute strategic initiatives in a aggressive market quicker, extra effectively and in areas that are new to the utility,” Marokane stated.
The opposite three appointments are:
- Portia Mngomezulu – group govt: company companies
- Nontokozo Hadebe – group govt: technique and sustainability
- Roman Crookes – group govt: group capital. – © 2024 NewsCentral Media
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