Chief HR Officer
Finance and Marketing
Cipla
South Africa
Simo joined Cipla Medpro as the Chief Human Resources Officer at the beginning of May 2014. Prior to that he was the Head of HR for Absa Insurance. He has worked for various organisations in different industries, these include amongst others Bidvest Logistics, Amalgamated Beverage Industries (ABI) – a soft drinks division of SABMiller, and SARS. He is versatile and adaptable as his success in different industries support this assertion.
He is passionate about people and he gets his energy from seeing people growing and becoming better than before. He maintains that performance coaching is key to attaining and maintaining high levels of individual, team and organisational performance. He promotes diversity and inclusion and believes that diverse teams can produce better outputs that are both profitable and sustainable.