BACKSTORY: Bidvest CEO Mpumi Madisa
We question Bidvest CEO-designate Mpumi Madisa
What’s your top tip for doing a deal? Make sure you acquire the best management team in that industry, and in that geography. What are you reading at the moment? What is the one book everyone should read? James-Brent Styan’s Steinhoff: Inside SA’s Biggest Corporate Crash, and Eat Right 4 Your Type. What’s the most interesting thing about you that people don’t know? I’m a brilliant dancer. You will always find me on the dance floor. What was your first job? I was a marketing assistant for an insurance company. Who is your favourite hero of fiction? I’m a big movie fan and Black Panther is my hero. I think I’ve seen the film six times. When and where were you happiest? At the moment, on my couch with a blanket, watching the new Game of Thrones series. What is something you would go back and tell your younger self that would impress or amaze them? I was appointed the youngest chief director in the Gauteng provincial government, at the age of 26. What do you regard as the lowest depth o...
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