Episode 25: Kiren Maharaj
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On the second episode of the #CriticalInfrastructureSA Series, I interview Kiren Maharaj. She is the Managing Director of Gibb Power and the Chairperson of the South African National Energy Association.
Operating as an executive in Africa’s foremost utility, Kiren was involved in many game changing initiatives – from setting up an energy trading and bidding system to allow for internal power pool trading to leading a companywide cost re-engineering project to identify cost savings, productivity and efficiency improvements in a multi-billion dollar company.
For around 6 years, Kiren was accountable for strategically directing, governing and overseeing the safe and effective production of electricity from over 14 000 Megawatts of coal fired power generation. She was also head of a R 35 billion division, accountable for the management of procurement, contracts, operations, logistics and the associated quality, technical and SHERQ issues of primary energy inputs for power generation. She has served as a Divisional Executive (Managing Director equivalent as per the revised Companies Act) of Eskom Holdings SOC Limited and serves as an executive and non-executive several South African companies. This includes a role as a lead independent director of one of South Africa’s largest independent power producers.
Kiren has founded start-up ventures that further empowerment and transformation in both the management consulting and energy sectors.
