Mhandu leaves SeedCo on medical grounds
SeedCo Zimbabwe managing director, Edworks Mhandu, has left the firm on medical grounds, and will be replaced by Terrence Chimanya with effect from February 1, 2022, according to the company.
Mhandu has been unwell for the past six months and had gone for treatment in South
Africa.
“We are pleased to advise that (Terrence) Chimanya, the current group head of Legal, has been appointed into the role of managing director of Seed Co Zimbabwe.
“He has been acting as MD for Seed Co Zimbabwe for the last six months while Mhandu was receiving medical attention,” SeedCo said.
“In that period, he has demonstrated some very good leadership qualities and managed to hold the team together and steer the ship during a period when the business has been affected by many challenges.”
Chimanya is a highly sought after risk advisory, compliance, corporate governance, and company secretariat specialist, with international experience gained from working for, and with, various organisations in Africa, Europe, and the USA.
He has given numerous talks on a wide range of topics in the governance, risk management and compliance field to private and public sector delegates in these jurisdictions over the last decade, and continues to be involved in shaping the thinking and knowledge development in this space.
Chimanya is also a Group Executive – Financial Services, Special Economic Zones, Governance and Risk with the Diaspora Infrastructure Development Group (DIDG) for Zimbabwe and South Africa.
He previously worked for one of the largest metropolitan municipalities in South Africa, where he headed the governance, risk, compliance division and special projects. Prior to that, Chimanya was a Senior Manager in the Risk Advisory Services Division at PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he consulted to entities in the hospitality, mining, financial services, property development, railways, security, government, healthcare and local authorities, amongst others.
SeedCo said Chimanya will bring a wealth of experience from organisations in the United Kingdom, South Africa and the United States of America.-eBusiness Weekly
