NWU Vaal | Leadership Summit 2015 | Speaker | Charmaine Lemao

 

Charmaine Lemoa

HR Director: Nissan South Africa

 

Charmaine Lemao is HR director for Nissan South Africa, in charge of the company’s HR department and its sub-divisions, including training and development, recruitment, talent management and talent retention.

Lemao joined Nissan SA in 2013 following stints in the mining and paper industries.

She started her career at Iscor (Kumba Resources) fulfilling various roles in HR, before moving to Nampak Tissue, previously a division of the Nampak Group, where she worked her way up from HR Manager to HR director.

Her posting at Nissan SA marked the appointment of the company’s first woman director.


Originally from Atteridgeville, North West of Pretoria, Lemao was schooled in the Limpopo Province and Pretoria. She studied at the University of Westville in KwaZulu-Natal and at the University of Johannesburg. She also completed an executive training programme through UNISA.

Updated by Magdel van Rensburg - 30/06/2015