{"id":28467,"date":"2014-02-21T18:35:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T16:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/2014\/02\/gerald-mahinda-joins-kellogg-as-managing-director-sub-saharan-africa\/"},"modified":"2014-02-21T18:35:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-21T16:35:00","slug":"gerald-mahinda-joins-kellogg-as-managing-director-sub-saharan-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/gerald-mahinda-joins-kellogg-as-managing-director-sub-saharan-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Gerald Mahinda joins Kellogg as Managing Director, Sub-Saharan Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kellogg Asia Pacific has announced the appointment of Gerald Mahinda, who joined Kellogg as Managing Director Sub-Saharan Africa on February 1, 2014.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs part of our emerging markets strategy, we have identified Sub-Saharan Africa as a key area of focus with long term growth potential for Kellogg,\u201d says Amit Banati, President, Asia Pacific<\/p>\n<p>Kellogg Sub-Saharan Africa is a key area of focus for Kellogg Company under the company\u2019s emerging markets strategy. Mr Mahinda will work closely with the leadership of Kellogg\u2019s Mediterranean, Central Europe, Middle East and Africa businesses, to transition into the new Sub-Saharan leadership role. The North Africa business will remain under the leadership of Kellogg\u2019s EMEA.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGerald has extensive experience in Africa and we are very pleased to have him join Kellogg,\u201d said Banati. \u201cWe are looking forward to the Sub-Saharan Africa business thriving under his guidance and leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr Mahinda joins Kellogg from Diageo where he has spent 14-years in leadership roles and been instrumental in delivering transformational growth for Diageo in Africa. Mr Mahinda has developed his career in Africa in various senior executive leadership roles spanning 20 different countries, with companies including AIG, Standard Chartered and as Managing Director of East African Breweries, Brandhouse in South Africa and until recently Managing Director of Diageo Africa Spirits Transformation.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Mahinda spoke of his ambitions for growth and his emphasis on people. He said: \u201cI see an outstanding opportunity for Kellogg to grow in Africa and felt energized by the team when I met them. I believe in winning with people and under my leadership that\u2019s how we\u2019ll achieve our ambitions.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8391\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8391\" alt=\"Gerald Mahinda\" src=\"http:\/\/myjhb.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Gerald_Mahinda.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"398\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gerald Mahinda Managing Director Sub-Saharan Africa Kellogg.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=56ad2d7b-214c-4bb4-9cc0-511aacf3ac16\" \/><\/div>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/myjhb.co.za\/gerald-mahinda-joins-kellogg-as-managing-director-sub-saharan-africa\/\">MyJHB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read more on <a href=\"http:\/\/myjhb.co.za\">MyJHB<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Join the fun:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/add-your-event\/\">Add Your event<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mypr.co.za\/submit\">Submit a Press Release<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/directory\/\">Add your listing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kellogg Asia Pacific has announced the appointment of Gerald Mahinda, who joined Kellogg as Managing Director Sub-Saharan Africa on February 1, 2014. \u201cAs part of our emerging markets strategy, we have identified Sub-Saharan Africa as a key area of focus with long term growth potential for Kellogg,\u201d says Amit Banati, President, Asia Pacific Kellogg Sub-Saharan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3332],"tags":[428,4243,4238,4240,4241,4239,4242,4244],"class_list":{"0":"post-28467","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-johannesburg-south-africa","7":"tag-africa","8":"tag-director","9":"tag-gerald","10":"tag-joins","11":"tag-kellogg","12":"tag-mahinda","13":"tag-managing","14":"tag-subsaharan","15":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}