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From a village in Gazankuluto the chairman's seat.
He was fifteen when he matriculated, nineteen when he walked into a multinational, and twenty-one when he first led a team. Four companies mark the road from there to the chair.
15
Gazankulu
Matriculates at fifteen
A village school in an apartheid-era homeland. At nineteen he joins Procter & Gamble; at twenty-one he leads his first team.
2006
Nando's
Leaves the corporate world to run a cluster of franchises as owner-operator.
2013
Diageo
CEO of Uganda Breweries. His first executive-suite role, in a country not his own.
2016
Vodacom
CEO, Consumer Business. Then Senior Advisor to BCG across sub-Saharan Africa.
2020
General Electric
CEO, GE Southern Africa. CEO of an international company before forty; a year later, Chair of the U.S.–South Africa Business Council.
Now
The chair
Chairperson, Schindler South Africa
Board chair. Non-executive director. Executive coach. Host of CEO Nights. The climb is finished. The work now is lifting other people up it.
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