CFO Aarti Takoordeen – Overcame poverty to become SA’s youngest listed company CFO
There are probably very few, if any, chief financial officers of South Africa’s top companies who have ever had to go to bed hungry. Aarti Takoordeen may be a former CFO of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) and AECI Limited, but she still has vivid memories of the hunger she experienced growing up in Ladysmith in a family of four with a single parent.