Paradise Foods Limited is pleased to announce the appointment of Augustine Kakui as Chief Financial Officer for the business commencing Wednesday, 25th January 2023.

A Kenyan national, Augustine is a seasoned finance professional with over 20 years of experience leading and managing corporate entities to business profitability and financial success, with a wide scope of experience in different countries in Africa and Oceania/Australia. Expatriation assignments to two Nestle markets as a CFO in Mozambique and Papua New Guinea in Oceania. He was Head of decision support function (Corporate Controller) for Nestle Equatorial African region responsible for providing timely and accurate consolidated financial information to Market CEO & CFO, Nestle Equatorial senior leadership team and Nestle Head office in Switzerland. He comes across from his former role as Group Finance Director for DL Group of Companies in Kenya & Tanzania.

In his new role as Group CFO for Paradise Foods, Augustine will be responsible in providing key leadership, commercial and financial control across all operations of the business. He will work closely with the CEO, Board, ELT and line managers to formulating, evaluating and implementing key initiatives and will be expected to drive improvement in financial reporting, management and control systems as well as the day to day management with full P&L responsibility. Augustine will be based with the Finance team in our Port Moresby office.