Name Jacob Maroga Jacob Maroga
Surname Maroga
First Names Jacob P
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Country of Birth South Africa
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2007   ESKOM Chief Executive Officer
2003 2007 ESKOM Director of Transmission
2000 2003 ESKOM Director of Distribution
Date of Birth 1959
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Notes From 1986 to 1994 Jacob held various engineering positions with Western deep levels Gold Mine, AECI, and Sasol Synthetic Fuels.
His association with Eskom began in 1995 when he joined Distribution as Technology Manager, later moving onto Engineering Manager in the Northern and North Eastern Regions. In September 2000 Jacob was appointed Managing Director of Distribution until July 2003. Thereafter he was appointed as Managing Director of Transmission.
Jacob currently serves as a director on the Electricity Distribution Industry (EDI) Board and was appointed to the Eskom Executive Committee during 2000.
During 1995 Jacob completed the Management Development Programme through Unisa, and the Executive Leadership Development Programme through Arthur D Little Management Education Institute (USA). In 1996 Jacob completed the Strategy Management for Electricity Utilities through Unipede (Germany), in 1998 the Senior Executive Programme through Harvard and Wits and during 2000 the Advanced Management Programme through Harvard.
He is a member of the SA Institute of Electrical Engineers since 1987.
For biography, see also http://www.whoswhosa.co.za/Pages/profilefull.aspx?IndID=5268 [ Retrieved on 05 FEB 2008 - http://www.eskom.co.za/live/content.php?Category_ID=562 ]
Record last updated on 22 FEB 2008