{"id":772409,"date":"2024-05-17T07:38:06","date_gmt":"2024-05-17T05:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=772409"},"modified":"2024-07-31T10:55:00","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T08:55:00","slug":"takealot-owner-appoints-new-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/772409\/takealot-owner-appoints-new-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"Takealot owner appoints new CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Fabricio Bloisi will be the new CEO of Takealot-owner Naspers and Prosus. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bloisi will join the Naspers board as an executive director on 1 July and the Prosus board following the AGM in August 2024, subject to shareholder approval.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bloisi will leave his current role as CEO of iFood. He acquired iFood in 2013 when it was a 20-person start-up, and it has since grown to become Brazil&#8217;s leading food delivery company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He has a degree in Computer Science from the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) and an MBA from the Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV\/EAESP).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Backing exceptional entrepreneurs who improve people&#8217;s everyday lives through technology has brought us some success over the years,&#8221; said group Chairman Koos Bekker.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-39.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-39-1024x683.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-772430\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Fabricio Bloisi<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\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=\"aiQkQHGW4k\"><a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wealth\/771612\/the-one-thing-south-africas-richest-people-have-in-common-2\/\">The one thing South Africa&#8217;s richest people have in common<\/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;The one thing South Africa&#8217;s richest people have in common&#8221; &#8212; BusinessTech\" src=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wealth\/771612\/the-one-thing-south-africas-richest-people-have-in-common-2\/embed\/#?secret=5z2Iow3xc8#?secret=aiQkQHGW4k\" data-secret=\"aiQkQHGW4k\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Interim CEO Ervin Tu will take up a new position as President and Chief Investment Officer (CIO). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Ervin has done an outstanding job as our interim CEO. He navigated a challenging external environment, re-focussed our teams, and brought energy and vigour to bear,&#8221; said Bekker. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;As our new President and CIO, he will play a fundamental role in shaping the Group&#8217;s future strategy, investments, and capital allocation.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The group said that its strategic goals remain unchanged, and it is set to deliver on its targets, such as achieving consolidated e-commerce trading profit during the second half of FY24.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Naspers year-end results will be published on Monday, 24 June 2024.<\/p>\n\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\/finance\/772317\/this-is-what-is-hitting-the-rand-right-now-keeping-south-africans-up-at-night\/\">This is what is hitting the rand right now \u2013 keeping South Africans up at night<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Naspers has found a permanent replacement for Bob van Dijk, with the new CEO leading one of the fastest-growing start-ups in Brazil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":758617,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872],"tags":[26,3314],"class_list":["post-772409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-headline","tag-takealot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772409","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=772409"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":785051,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772409\/revisions\/785051"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/758617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}