The Post Office has charged acting CEO Lindiwe Kwele with misconduct relating to her management of the state-owned entity over four months. Nick was most recently Group CEO at Extra Energy and prior to that CEO at Nisa Retail Limited where he led the stabilisation and transformation of the business ahead of its sale to the Co-Op in 2018. [2] Having won a funded place, she was educated at the Manchester High School for Girls, an all-girls independent school in Manchester. Here’s What Could Change. Post Office chief executive Nick Read said: "The quashing of historical convictions is a vital milestone in fully and properly addressing the past as I work to put right these wrongs as swiftly as possible, and there must be compensation that reflects what has happened.". [3][4], Vennells began her career as a graduate trainee at Unilever in 1981. Nomkhita Mona has been appointed as the new Group Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the South African Post Office. Read, who has 25 years of consumer and commercial experience, will join in September. The two firms issued brief notes on the London Stock Exchange, saying she would be leaving the roles, which include responsibilities for setting executive pay and upholding corporate responsibility. The Post Office has appointed consumer business veteran Nick Read as its new group chief executive. computerweekly.com - • Karl Flinders, Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly Published: 26 Apr 2021 10:59 Former Post Office CEO Paula Vennells has stepped down from two … Less clear are answers to other types of questions that only the CEO can address because they’re more strategic and fundamental to the nature of ... they want to spend in the office post-pandemic. At the court ruling on Friday, Lord Justice Holroyde said the Post Office "effectively steamrolled over any subpostmaster who sought to challenge its accuracy". The consequences of this were far-reaching for the Post Office and devastating for the subpostmasters. DeJoy Was the CEO & Manager of New Breed Logistics, Which He … Ahmed Fahour was handed almost $11 million after quitting as Australia Post CEO earlier this year. Vennells joined the Post Office in 2007 and became its chief executive on separation from Royal Mail … [17] Vennells had been due to appear before a parliamentary select committee to answer questions about the scandal on 24 March 2020, but this was cancelled due to the Coronavirus crisis and MPs' questions were dealt with in writing. [25] The former NHS consultant psychiatrist Minh Alexander, who made the original referral to the CQC, said that “the trust reluctantly agreed to commission an external report on her fitness only at a late stage”, and speculated that Vennells had subsequently been pressured to resign. - Nick Ferrari, 'Is Boris Johnson on the ropes?' She went on to work for L'Oreal, Dixons Retail, Argos, and Whitbread. Her lawyer believes the suspension is politically motivated. 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