Rochelle Gabriels joins Tata International Africa Distribution as CFO

Sinenhlanhla Mncwango 02 December 2025

Tata International Africa Distribution has appointed seasoned finance executive Rochelle Gabriels as its CFO, marking her return to the corporate arena after a short career break.

Tata International Africa Distribution has appointed Rochelle Gabriels as CFO. Prior to this, she was the CFO of AECI for one year before taking a career break for seven months.

She also held multiple positions at Imperial for over three years, which included being the acting CFO for seven months.

Before that she was CFO of MultiChoice SA Group for almost three years.

Rochelle holds a BCom from UCT.

Sinenhlanhla Mncwango

Sinenhlanhla Mncwango is the senior writer for CFO South Africa. She grew up in Vryheid, northern KZN; studied journalism at the University of Johannesburg and obtained her honours in 2020. Sinenhlanhla has experience in online and broadcast media. In her spare time she enjoys a good game of cricket, hockey and loves learning different languages.

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