Yolande Chirwa joins TransUnion as CHRO

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Yolande Chirwa has been appointed CHRO at TransUnion following a one-year career break from corporate life.

Before joining TransUnion, Yolande served as head of HR for Africa at Cipla. Prior to that, she was the director of people operations at BetKing.

Earlier in her career, she spent more than nine years with Anheuser-Busch InBev and SABMiller, holding several senior HR leadership positions including people continuity director for Africa, HR director, HR services manager and performance management consultant.

She also held roles as a HR specialist at South African Breweries and started her career as a new business assistant at Stannic.

Academically, Yolande holds a master’s in organisational development and leadership from Fielding Graduate University, an honours in business administration from Stellenbosch University, a postgraduate diploma in industrial relations from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, and a bachelor of arts in sociology from Hamilton College.

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