Mark Sardi

Chief Executive Officer, Ster-Kinekor

Mark Sardi is Chief Executive Officer of Ster-Kinekor.

Ster-Kinekor is South Africa's largest cinema chain, with 57 commercial complexes in the country and six more in Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe. In 2024 it closed two cinemas rather than the nine first planned.

In the job

  1. Ster-Kinekor closed two cinemas and cut fewer than 60 jobs, against an initial plan to close nine cinemas and shed 226 jobs. Source

  2. Ster-Kinekor closed its Cavendish Square cinema while saying it was securing four new sites and upgrading existing cinemas. Source

Career before

  1. Corporate finance and investment banking, London and Johannesburg
  2. Managing director and joint head of investment banking, Nedbank Capital
  3. 2010Chief financial officer, Truworths International
  4. 2013Deputy chief executive, Cipla South Africa
  5. 2014-2019Chief executive, House of Busby
  6. 2019Chief executive, Ascendis Health

Education

Chartered accountant

Sources

  1. businesstech.co.za
  2. businessday.co.za
  3. thepost.co.za
  4. ewn.co.za
  5. dailyinvestor.com
  6. iol.co.za

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