Thato Moloele is CFO-designate and executive director at AfroCentric

Ang Lloyd 11 December 2024

Thato Moloele to officially take CFO role from 1 February 2025.

AfroCentric group has announced the appointment of Thato Moloele as CFO designate and executive director, with effect from 1 January 2025. He will officially take on the role of CFO effective 1 February 2025.

This follows the resignation of the health group’s previous CFO - and 2019 CFO Awards' Transformation & Empowerment Award winner - Hannes Boonzaaier, in November 2024. He will join the AdvTech group as CFO from 1 February 2025.

A chartered accountant who holds a BAccSci in Accounting and Finance from Wits, as well as an MBA from the University of Manchester, Thato’s previous role was as a senior consultant in corporate finance at Sanlam. Other senior positions he has held during his career include M&A principal at the Momentum group and corporate finance manager at Deloitte South Africa.

Ang Lloyd

Ang is a senior writer for CIO South Africa, CHRO South Africa and CFO South Africa. She's been working with words since completing her BA in journalism from Rhodes University in 2004, and she has experience in the B2B and consumer magazine spaces, digital marketing, and writing for the C-Suite. She has a special interest in technology and how it impacts humans, but most of all, she just loves telling people’s stories (she's won awards for some of them). In 2020, she felt like she needed another piece of paper so she completed her honours in journalism at Wits University.

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