Dhiren Ponnusamy has been appointed Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Medine and will take up his duties as of July 1, 2021. His appointment was endorsed by the Medine Board of Directors earlier today on the 25th June 2021. Before his appointment as CEO of Medine, Dhiren served as Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the same group.
Married with two children, this alumnus of the Royal College of Curepipe and holder of a BSC (Hons) in economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science, is a certified financial expert of the CFA Institute.
Before joining the Medine group, Dhiren Ponnusamy, during his twelve-year career at Standard Chartered Bank, worked in the various international subsidiaries of this group, operating in South Korea, Singapore, the Philippines and South Africa. South, before taking up the position of Managing Director at the headquarters of Standard Chartered Group Plc in London.
It was in January 2018 and after more than twenty years spent abroad, that he joined the Medine group, where he benefited from his solid experience in strategic planning, finance, and performance management.
In April 2020, he took the leadership of the group as Acting CEO, with the support of the Executive Committee made up of René Leclézio, Chairman of the Board of Directors and its Vice-Chairman Jacques Li Wan Po.
René Leclézio, chariman of the Medine Board of Directors comment this nomimnation in these terms:
“We are delighted finally to be able to announce Dhiren’s nomination as CEO of Medine. He has effectively been doing the job for over a year, but Covid-19 managed to derail our best laid plans. He and his team have worked tirelessly during these extremely trying times, and in a relatively short time Dhiren was able to consolidate the group’s finances, negotiate successfully with our bankers and bond holders, and federate the staff behind a vision which is now undeniably shared between the board and management. I wish him a productive tenure as CEO, and we should look forward to many profitable years for Medine.”
