Jaco Labuschagne steps down as Pembury Lifestyle Group FD

CFO South Africa 05 October 2021

Jaco has stepped down from the role after his initial intention to resign in July 2020.

Jaco Labuschagne has resigned as the finance director of Pembury Lifestyle Group.

In July 2020 Jaco had initially announced his resignation, but withdrew it after the company’s CEO Andrew Robert McLachlan stepped down in August 2020.

Jaco joined Pembury in November 2019 as a management accountant and was appointed as the FD in March 2020. He started his career at KPMG in 2016, where he completed his articles in 2018. During this time, he was involved with the audit of a number of large listed and unlisted companies.

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