Job Title: HR Director
Company: Illovo Sugar South Africa
Bianca Anthon is currently the HR director at Illovo Sugar South Africa.
Before joining Illovo Sugar in 2024, she spent almost 15 years as a director at Verify-Talent Solutions. She previously served as CHRO at Bidvest Life, and as an HR consultant, facilitator, coach and speaker at Appletree Group. Earlier in her career, she was people development manager at FMI and HR director at Elizabeth Arden.
Bianca began her career at South African Breweries, where she worked across learning and development and HR, following an earlier role as a junior assessment associate at Saunders & Associates Industrial Psychologists.
She holds a BSocSci in psychology and industrial psychology from the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
Work:
2024 – Present HR director, Illovo Sugar South Africa
2009 – 2024 Director, Verify-Talent Solutions
2022 – 2023 CHRO, Bidvest Life
2017 – 2019 HR consultant / facilitator / coach / speaker, Appletree Group
2017 – 2018 People development manager, FMI
2012 – 2014 HR director, Elizabeth Arden
2006 – 2009 Regional learning & development specialist and HR specialist, South African Breweries
2000 – 2006 Corporate social investment manager and HR practitioner, Natal Portland Cement
1999 – 2000 Junior assessment associate, Saunders & Associates Industrial Psychologists
Education:
1993 – 1997 BSocSci in psychology and industrial psychology, University of KwaZulu-Natal
About company: llovo Sugar South Africa produces and markets sugar and related products, with operations spanning sugarcane cultivation, milling and sugar production.
