Curro appoints new CEO and deputy CEO
Private education group Curro has announced that its chief executive officer, Andries Greyling, will retire from the group in the new year.
He will remain available to the company whenever required until June 2023, Curro said.
Greyling served Curro for over 15 years, first as CFO, COO and then as CEO, and was pivotal in navigating unchartered territory during the Covid-19 pandemic, it said.
Greyling will be succeeded by the group’s current chief financial officer, Cobus Loubser, effective 1 January 2023. Loubser will remain CFO in the interim until a new full-time appointment is made.
“The board will advise shareholders in due course once a permanent replacement for the role of CFO has been identified and appointed,” it said.
Loubser was appointed as an executive director and the CFO of Curro on 1 January 2021. He is a chartered accountant and has broad leadership and commercial experience, having started his career at KMPG, served as the financial manager of Virgin Active SA for four years, and held the CFO position for 11 years at Holdsport until it was acquired by Long4Life in 2017 and delisted.
He then became the CEO of Long4Life’s Sport and Recreation division, which he left at the end of 2020 to join Curro.
In addition to appointing Loubser as the new CEO, Curro said that the current executive for corporate services and the group company secretary, Mari Lategan, will be appointed as an executive director on the board and as the Deputy-CEO, with effect from 1 January 2023.
“The board has commenced a process of identifying a permanent replacement for Mari in her company secretarial role, and shareholders will be advised as soon as such an appointment has been made,” it said.
Lategan has an MBA from Stellenbosch University’s Business School, an Honours in Journalism and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Stellenbosch University.
She joined Curro more than six years ago and served as Executive for Corporate Services and Group Company Secretary. Prior to joining Curro, she founded a strategic business and communications consultancy firm and was a general manager at Media24.
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