Cell C has confirmed that its chief financial officer, Lerato Pule, has resigned.<\/p>\n
In an emailed statement, Cell C said Pule is \u201ctaking up another opportunity\u201d. ITWeb first reported Pule’s departure.<\/p>\n
\u201cOver the next few months, she will continue to deliver on critical financial matters,\u201d Cell C said.<\/p>\n
Cell C has not announced a replacement, saying the company will still begin the process of identifying a successor.<\/p>\n
The Cell C board commended Pule for facilitating the finalisation of the company\u2019s recapitalisation deal and initiating three years of historical audits, comprising the financial years between 2018 and 2020.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe final stages of the 2021 and 2022 historic audit [is] soon to be completed to ensure the timely delivery of the complete annual financial statements for these years,\u201d Cell C said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHer influence extended beyond traditional financial reporting, as she has played a crucial role in building a strong finance team and advancing our finance function into the realm of analytics.\u201d<\/p>\n
Pule is the latest of several executive and board moves at the embattled mobile service company.<\/p>\n
In June, Cell C announced that two former MTN and Vodacom heavyweights had been appointed to its board<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n These were former MTN South Africa CEO Godfrey Motsa and Vodacom corporate affairs executive Maya Makanjee. Motsa had also done a stint at Vodacom before becoming MTN SA CEO.<\/p>\n A day later, Cell C announced that Vodacom veteran Jorge Mendes had been appointed CEO<\/strong><\/a> from 1 July 2023.<\/p>\n Mendes had been at Vodacom for 23 years before deciding to take on one of the hardest jobs in South African telecoms.<\/p>\n His first hire was Rachael Ayo-Oladejo<\/strong><\/a>, who had been at Vodacom for over 11 years. She moved into the new Chief of Staff, Strategy, and Business Transformation role.<\/p>\n Cell C COO Andre Ittman officially left the company<\/strong><\/a> on 31 July, although his name and photo had been removed from the operator\u2019s website for a while before that. He had been serving a three-month notice period.<\/p>\n Melanie Forbes was the second Vodacom veteran to switch sides after Mendes\u2019 appointment.<\/p>\n She had spent 14 years at South Africa\u2019s largest mobile operator and became Cell C\u2019s new chief marketing officer<\/strong><\/a> on 1 August 2023.<\/p>\n Lerato Pule has resigned as Cell C’s finance chief.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":462543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,3],"tags":[35,58256,81691],"class_list":["post-504514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","category-telecoms","tag-headline","tag-jorge-mendes","tag-lerato-pule"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504514"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":504610,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504514\/revisions\/504610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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