{"id":757551,"date":"2024-03-05T12:24:46","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T10:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=757551"},"modified":"2024-03-05T12:28:38","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T10:28:38","slug":"cell-c-appoints-permanent-cfo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/757551\/cell-c-appoints-permanent-cfo\/","title":{"rendered":"Cell C appoints permanent CFO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Cell C has announced that El Kope will be its permanent Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Executive Director for Finance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kope was named Acting CFO in August 2023, with the group crediting her for significantly improving governance, stabilising the finance department and strengthening relationships with critical stakeholders. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Under El\u2019s leadership, Cell C achieved several key milestones, materially improving governance<br>structures and instituting the correct methodologies resulting in revenue enhancement,&#8221; Cell C said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kope is Chartered Accountant and joined the group in September 2022 as the the Executive Head for Financial Planning &amp; Analysis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She previously worked for DHL, Coca-Cola Africa SA Breweries, and played a central role in Tsebo International\u2019s $150 million turnover. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-businesstech wp-block-embed-businesstech\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"fazJEmvL1w\"><a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/754073\/messy-results-for-blue-label\/\">Messy results for Blue Label<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Messy results for Blue Label&#8221; &#8212; BusinessTech\" src=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/754073\/messy-results-for-blue-label\/embed\/#?secret=if2vEWIDz4#?secret=fazJEmvL1w\" data-secret=\"fazJEmvL1w\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEl has demonstrated exceptional leadership, strategic financial and business acumen, and I cannot be more pleased about her well-deserved appointment,&#8221; said CEO Jorge Mendes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I look forward to her ongoing contribution as we drive our growth and reposition Cell C for long-term sustainability.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/El-Kope-image--scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/El-Kope-image--1024x576.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-757571\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/El-Kope-image--1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/El-Kope-image--300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/El-Kope-image--768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/El-Kope-image--1536x864.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/El-Kope-image--2048x1152.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Cell C CFO El Kope<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/757407\/south-africas-biggest-retailer-eats-r500-million-load-shedding-bill-as-sales-and-profits-soar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">South Africa\u2019s biggest retailer eats R500 million load shedding bill as sales and profits soar<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cell C has announced that El Kope will be its permanent Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Executive Director for Finance. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":733943,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[42,26],"class_list":["post-757551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-telecommunications","tag-cell-c","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/95"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=757551"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":757581,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757551\/revisions\/757581"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/733943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}