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Blue Label appoints SA COO

Staff Writer
By Staff Writer, ITWeb
Johannesburg, 26 Apr 2017
Wayne McCauley SA chief operating officer, Blue Label Telecoms.
Wayne McCauley SA chief operating officer, Blue Label Telecoms.

Blue Label Telecoms has appointed Wayne McCauley as SA chief operating officer, based in Johannesburg.

In this new position, McCauley will be responsible for developing, implementing and managing corporate and business strategies, and will report to joint-CEOs Mark and Brett Levy.

McCauley joins Blue Label after nearly 30 years at SABMiller, most recently in a dual role as sales and distribution director for Africa and as operations director for a number of Southern African countries. He holds a BCom, MBL from Unisa and recently completed a 'Leading the Business programme' at Oxford University in the UK.

"We welcome Wayne to our rapidly expanding South African business operations. His solid track record, based on results and performance achievements across Africa and the USA, will add new insights and energy to our numerous product and service brands," say Mark and Brett Levy.

Previous COO Mark Pamensky resigned in November 2015 "to pursue personal business interests". Yesterday Werner van Reenen was also promoted internally to take over as group COO, moving from his previous role as CEO of South Africa Distribution. McCauley joins as COO of South Africa Distribution.

Blue Label is still pursuing plans to invest R5.5 billion to buy a 45% stake in mobile operator Cell C.

A binding umbrella restructure agreement was signed in February by itself, Cell C, debt providers of Cell C and Net 1 UEPS, which also plans to invest R2 billion for a 15% stake in Cell C.

Blue Label previously said it expected relevant transaction agreements to be concluded by no later than 30 June.

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