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BL Premium reports that the Technology Innovation Agency (TIA), which has not had a permanent CEO since 2019, is set to appoint yet another acting CEO. This time it will apparently tap its CFO Ismail Abdoola for the role.
The agency is an entity of the Department of Science & Innovation (DS&I) based. In Pretoria. If appointed, Abdoola will replace his boss and soon to be subordinate Patrick Krappie, who has been acting CEO since 2020. TIA advised that it has decided to rotate the acting CEO role, with Abdoola being considered to have the first bite at the cherry. This as the agency hunts for an elusive permanent CEO. Several members of the entity’s executive committee are also in acting capacities, with some having acted for as long as two years. The agency was established in 2009 to support the state in stimulating and intensifying technological innovation to improve economic growth by developing and exploiting technological innovations. The agency said Krappie would revert to his role as executive responsible for innovation enabling. TIA previously indicated that Krappie had been acting in the role of CEO since June 2020 because DS&I Minister Blade Nzimande had ordered an institutional review of the organisation that year – a process only completed a few months ago. TIA is facing a R11m lawsuit from the candidate who was interviewed for the role and was meant to take over as CEO in 2020 before the institutional review put brakes on the appointment.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Kabelo Khumalo at BusinessLive (subscriber access only)
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