Megan Pydigadu
Megan Pydigadu has been the group finance director of EOH since January 2019.
Megan qualified as a CA(SA in 1999 after obtaining a higher diploma in accounting from the University of Witwatersrand and a B.Comm accounting degree from the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
She started her career at Deloitte South Africa, where she did her articles for three years before becoming an audit manager. In January 2002 she joined De Beers as a senior divisional financial manager and in September 2005 she became the group financial controller for Bateman Engineering. She joined MiX Telematics as CFO in August 2010. In February 2017 she became the CFO of Eazi Access Rental before joining EOH as the group finance director.
Megan was nominated for the CFO Awards in both 2014 and 2015 for her work at Mix Telematics. She has also been nominated for the 2021 CFO Awards for her work as the group FD of EOH.
Work
2019 – Present Group FD, EOH
2017 – 2018 CFO, Eazi Access Rental
2010 – 2017 CFO, MiX Telematics
2005 – 2010 Group financial controller, Bateman Engineering
2002 – 2005 Senior divisional financial manager, De Beers
2000 – 2001 Audit manager, Deloitte South Africa
1997 – 2000 Article clerk, Deloitte South Africa
Education
1999 CA(SA), SAICA
1996 H.Dip, accounting, University of Witwatersrand
1993 – 1995 B.Comm, accounting, University of KwaZulu-Natal
About company: EOH group is a South African company specialising in the provision of technology services to businesses and government.
Company: EOH
Job title: Group FD
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17 September 2019
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Three years ago, MiX Telematics decided their JSE listing was nice but that what would really boost the fleet and mobile asset management solutions firm was a New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) listing. CFO Megan Pydigadu, nominated for the CFO Awards in both 2014 and 2015, describes the listing process as a roller coaster ride. In this exclusive article, Megan shares a number of important lessons for companies that are considering going to New York.
17 November 2016
MiX Telematics CFO Megan Pydigadu moves to Eazi Access Group
Megan Pydigadu will be the new CFO of Eazi Access Group, Africa's market leader in the rental, sale and servicing of work-at-height solutions. The current finance head of MiX Telematics will leave the telematics company after serving her three-month notice period and will start her new job mid-February 2017.
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Listing at the NYSE - a chat to Megan Pydigadu (MiX Telematics)
Not many South African CFOs will guide their JSE-listed company through a second listing in New York, but Megan Pydigadu did just that. We chatted to her about the ups and downs MiX Telematics has gone through since then, the balance between an entrepreneurial attitude and compliance and shifting the company culture.
