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- SuperSport CEO Marc Jury is taking over as MultiChoice South Africa CEO from Nyiko Shiburi.
- Shiburi will head up a newly created technology division at the Randburg-based pay-TV company.
- "We are repositioning our technology area to lead our next growth phase and to deliver on our vision of becoming the technology platform of choice for African households," says Calvo Mawela, MultiChoice group CEO.
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MultiChoice South Africa CEO Nyiko Shiburi is relinquishing the role after three years to head up a newly created technology division at the Randburg-based pay-TV company. SuperSport CEO Marc Jury will be the new MultiChoice SA CEO.
Teix Texeira is stepping in as interim SuperSport CEO for a year. Rendani Ramovha, the head of marketing and commercial for SuperSport, has been appointed as SuperSport CEO-designate and will take over the position from April 2024.
MultiChoice told News24 on Friday afternoon that Shiburi was exiting his position as MultiChoice SA CEO and becoming MultiChoice group chief technology officer.
The company says it is uniting its broadcast technology division, enterprise business systems, group digital, DStv streaming technology and project management office under one division.
"We are repositioning our technology area to lead our next growth phase and to deliver on our vision of becoming the technology platform of choice for African households," says Calvo Mawela, MultiChoice group CEO.
"Nyiko has extensive leadership experience in the technology space, having grown within the MultiChoice ranks from senior manager for broadcast engineering and group GM for the broadcast technology division.
"His technology background and experience ... places him in good stead to lead this new division and deliver the best technology to achieve our goals."
For the past few weeks, insiders have also told News24 about several other planned C-suite executive changes coming to various countries within the MultiChoice Africa fold – notably Kenya, Angola and MultiChoice's overall team of regional African executives, but MultiChoice didn't confirm any of these changes on Friday.
Mawela had this to say about Jury:
Before being SuperSport CEO, Jury was responsible for the commercial aspects of SuperSport, which included managing sports-related programming across the SuperSport channels and marketing the content of these channels.
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Ramovha is currently head of marketing and commercially responsible for driving commercial growth and building partnership opportunities for SuperSport across the African continent.
"Rendani has driven some of the most exciting innovations within SuperSport, including SuperSport Schools, SuperPicks (the BetKing and SuperSport partnership) and the SA20 Cricket League," says Mawela.
Teixeira has been a chief content officer for SuperSport over the past year, having recently re-joined SuperSport from Sky in New Zealand, where he occupied various leadership roles, including CEO of Sky Sports. Within SuperSport, he has previously held several roles, including head of productions and head of channels.
"We are excited about this new leadership team and believe they will play a key role in our journey to become a technology platform of choice," says Mawela.
