Maurice joined Illovo Sugar Malawi as Commercial Head from 1st March 2020. 

Prior to joining Illovo Sugar Malawi, Maurice worked with Illovo Sugar Africa (Pty) Ltd Group office in Durban, South Africa as Group Route-To-Consumer Manager where he championed development of multi country Route-To-Consumer strategies based on data and insights from a range of market potential surveys thereby supporting top-line revenue growth. He also supported a change process that will bring about major improvements to the way the company sells, distributes and makes products available to customers and consumers across Zambia, Malawi, Tanzania, and South Africa.

Before joining Illovo, Maurice worked with Coca-Cola East & South Africa Business Unit and Serengeti Breweries Ltd (a Diageo Plc and East Africa Breweries Plc affiliate in Tanzania) in areas of Commercial execution, Sales, and Marketing. He has over 13 years of hands-on Commercial execution experience. 

Maurice is a holder of Bachelor of Business Administration degree (Economics major), from the University of Iringa (Tanzania) and he is currently an MBA candidate at East & Southern African Management Institute (ESAMI). Maurice has attended leadership development programs at both Georgia Institute of Technology (USA) & Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) Business School (South Africa).