24 Feb 2014 07:00
Naspers Limited
(Incorporated in the Republic of South Africa)
(Registration number 1925/001431/06)
JSE share code: NPN ISIN: ZAE000015889
LSE ADS code: NPSN ISIN: US 6315121003
("Naspers" or "the company")
NASPERS ANNOUNCES CEO AND CHAIRMAN'S SUCCESSION
The Naspers board announced that its CEO, Koos Bekker (61), will be succeeded by Bob van Dijk, currently Naspers's most senior ecommerce chief.
Van Dijk (41) holds an MSc Econometrics from Erasmus University Rotterdam (cum laude), plus an MBA from Insead in France (Dean's List). Among other experience, he headed up eBay Germany, that group's biggest market outside the US, and was COO of Schibsted's classifieds.
Bekker will stand down from the Naspers board for a year effective 1 April 2014, to allow Van Dijk the space to settle in with both Naspers top management and the board. Van Dijk will join the board as an executive director on 1 April. Bekker intends to travel widely and research where the group's next spurt of growth may come from, once ecommerce has reached maturity. In April 2015, Ton Vosloo intends to step down as chair of the board, when Bekker will succeed him, as non-executive chair.
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