South Africa: PPC has appointed Veliswa Rozani as its Chief Financial Officer (CFO). She succeeds Brenda Berlin in the role, as she has retired. Rozani will take up the position from 1 October 2026. In the interim period Paulo Marques, currently PPC’s chief strategy officer, has been appointed as acting CFO.

Rozani is a chartered accountant with over 20 years’ experience in financial management roles across multinational and South African organisations. She currently works as group CFO of NMI–Durban South Motors, a joint venture partner of Barloworld South Africa. Previously, she was the CFO of Barloworld Motor Retail South Africa. Her career also includes senior roles at Johnson & Johnson and Microsoft SA, and she completed her articles at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Rozani holds an undergraduate degree in commerce and a master’s of business administration (MBA) qualification from Nelson Mandela University in George and Port Elizabeth. 

Germany: Qlar Group, formerly Schenck Process, has appointed Thomas Giese as its Chief Financial Officer (CFO). He succeeds Dirk Scholz in the role. Giese has assumed responsibility for accounting, controlling, treasury, tax and legal functions.

Giese holds over 30 years’ experience in the industrial sector. He has held management roles at Elster, GKN, IFA, BOS and KraussMaffei, among others. He notably worked for over 16 years at Elster Group from the late 1990s to 2015 eventually become its CFO and Managing Director Gas & Electricity Global.

India: Madhavi Isanaka has resigned as Chief Digital Officer (CDO) at Ambuja Cements with immediate effect citing medical reasons and personal commitments.

Isanaka became CDO at Ambuja Cements in early 2025. She has been CDO at fellow Adani Group subsidiary Adani Green Energy since mid-2022. Earlier in her career she worked for US-based engines and power systems company Cummins in information and digital roles from 2001 to 2019. She later held the post of Vice President of IT, CIO at US-based electric car manufacturer Rivian from 2019 to 2021. Isanaka holds an undergraduate degree in engineering from Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati, and a master’s of business administration (MBA) qualification from Indiana University in the US.

Türkiye: Akçansa has appointed Tayfun Öneş as its General Manager.

Öneş previously worked as the CEO of Mercedes-Benz Financial Services Romania from 2014 to 2021. Earlier in his career, he worked for Akçansa as its Assistant General Manager - Sales & Marketing. He also held positions as the Company Manager of Akçansa’s aggregates subsidiary Agresa, as a Strategy & Development Manager for Akçansa and as a Marketing & Planning Manager for Çanakkale Çimento in the 1990s and early 2000s. Öneş is a graduate in business economics from the Middle East Technical University in Ankara.